Blurt needs @jacobgadikian to come back to Blurt ASAP, steer this ship in the correct direction, and do what he says on his previous post you can see here titled No's...https://blurt.blog/blurt/@jacobgadikian/no-s.
We need one of our popular bloggers to interview him, personally I think @ultravioltetmag would be perfect for this. Maybe hold a round table Q and A discussion, live on blurtcast.
As for the current management led by @megadrive. This is how I see it.
@double-u major investor, held the price up, tried to grow blurt, supported the community with large up-votes. Had a difference of opinion in general politics and with how blurt should be run. @megadrive drives him and his investment off the platform.
@ctime major investor, held the price up, tried to grow blurt, supported the community with large up-votes. Had a difference of opinion in general politics and with how blurt should be run. @megadrive now attempts to drive him and his investment off the platform.
@mariuszkarowski major investor, held the price up, tried to grow blurt, supported the community with large up-votes. Had a difference of opinion in general politics and with how blurt should be run. @megadrive now attempts to drive him and his investment off the platform.
Other large investors including myself are watching this and losing all confidence in Blurt. We are powering down more millions of blurt, we all will be dropping the price and removing our curation support from the community as well. Another credit to @megadrive.
Meanwhile @megadrive gets consultation from hivewatchers, and @opedia who does curation for the large @ecosynthesizer account and @themarkymark laugh at the situation.
Frankly this whole thing is too stupid to be stupid and wreaks of corrupt influences out of Hive. Who runs a business with a track record of running off investors? Hive does! Who uses fear to control. Hive does, they do it to maintain power, absolute power. Seems like hive and blurt have way more in common than I could have imagined. The only difference is that hive uses a down-vote button and blurt uses @megadrive.
Here @megadrive is using "fear" of hijacking from the two largest supporters of the community to get rid of them, crashing the price and destroying the platform. Meanwhile, I need to thank him for keeping me safe, as my 20k investment shrinks by 75% practically overnight? and the real selling hasn't even yet begun...
https://blurt.blog/blurt/@blurtofficial/part-2-the-real-threat-of-community-hijacking
I fault myself for not looking further into this person who is in charge before investing. I assumed no business man in their right mind would solve disputes by running off their top investors. I thought giving up control of the platform to larger investors was the common sense goal here, as the only way this is possible is from buying large amounts of blurt, enriching the founding members.
But this is not the goal, seems like the goal is a promise to keep Blurt functioning on life support in exchange for power, instead of fostering the price to go to the moon. Is this part of a backroom deal with hive and/or steem. "Hey, kill blurt by driving off the top investors; we don't like the competition" and there are payouts being made from Hive and/or Steemit? I don't know, but that makes more business sense to me than what is currently going on.
This post is not addressed to @megadrive at all, as he tends to ignore me anyway; I have no interest in getting into any kind of argument with him or anyone here. But this is just an address to the community that if I knew the top man in charge here was getting consultation advice from Hive Watchers I would never have invested one penny. If knew the top guy on the platform was going to chase off the largest investors over and over again, doing the complete opposite of growing blurt; I would never have invested a penny.
Without investment and a higher price, Blurt has no value. New investors will not come knowing that if they disagree with @megadrive or try to influence the platform in their own way that does not align with @megadrive, then they are at risk of having their account frozen or forced to leave with probably a big loss.
Without proper management attracting investors instead of running them off, than Blurt has no future; and I like many have wasted my time, money, and effort here. And that is life; you win some, you lose some, and life goes on.
The only way I would consider cancelling my powering down and not selling, is if @jacobgadikian..... One; has the power to change course, influencing these major investors to stay here along with their investment and contributions. Two; can guarantee the stability of the platform from a technological side. And three; can rebuild confidence in Blurt in a public video interview/live chat format.
At this point the decision to maintain power and control through driving top investors off the platform at the expense of a total price collapse has driven my confidence of this place down to the floor, where the price will likely remain for a very long time. When there is big money involved it's a business not just a "project". It's about time @megadrive starts conducting himself accordingly.
Image credit: unsplash.com
Side Note: @randula due to such disappointment in the management of the platform I am no longer motivated to support your monthly power up event with the 5,000 blurt delegation (which is now only worth about $35 anyway). My sincere apologies. Best wishes to you. I'm well aware you like many of us have nothing to do with recent events.
Hi..It's upto you to decide when to end this support. So no worries and thank you for your support for the pervious month. But I do hope you will think about your PD once again because this is not the first time larger stakes are going to sell or this is not the first time of price drop for blurt even in my time period in blurt.
Things will fine soon ❤️. I am so glad for the support you given.
Cheers...
Thank you @randula. When I came here there were three large investors that stood out, holding the price up and supporting the community with large upvotes. When @double-u powered down and sold, I just got here, and that was one down and recoverable. Now it looks like we now lose the other two @ctime and MK and others, probably selling into an already depressed price. My conclusion is this is simply too much, all three gone. Devastating to the price and future and future of Blurt. Truly upsetting shocker to me and many here.
Congratulations, your post has been curated by @techclub
Manually curated by
@samhenrytenplus
..and yet you want to come back to HIVE? You are wasting your time.., (yes I am here to spy.. its is fascinating all this).
Hahaha, I knew that would get you all excited. I know how much you miss me ;) lol.
Wait for the big anonymous account that auto downvotes your ass for no reason. All of you.
I love a good bear market, it s a great time to buy. Makes my down votes more powerful during the bull market while I make another 20x on the next hive pump and dump cycle.
Downvotes? That's that other place.. not here. You're getting all confused.
Wow, you're slow. Hive loves the feeble minded, easy to control.
Yeah I came out arse first. Got to go back to HIVE now.., where I can make some $$, bye..., and be careful @bullywatch will get you .. that insult box will be be ticked.., terrible things will happen.
You realise that’s a satire account by Lucy Lin right?
LoL
I’m going to play a little game and make an account on hive this week and see if slobberchops and gang can recognise me. I reckon I can go incognito.
This is all so stupid you do realise if anyone actually wanted to post on hive it’s rly easy to just go get 5 new accounts even and post under a different name. I could do absolutely any style of art art and photography and I promise you no one would notice. Either of us could be on there right now and you just have no idea who we are. This whole ‘ they might allow you back on’ shows everything wrong with the platform that a handful of rich ppl really think they have the right to decide who can earn the right to post again lol try and listen to this from some kind of outside perspective and realise how indoctrinated you have been made in that environment. I really think hive drives ppl into some weird mind state.
god all these hive ppl are obsessed with this platform must have gotten boring over there. Maybe they would like a little taste of free speech or something.
So much drama.., I will run out of Blurt soon with all these fees. It's expensive over here.
there is drama because people are allowed a voice here, if we don't like someone being singled out we speak up and get things changed. Good old healthy debate that I guess you guys have been missing over there where if you say one bad word or stand up for someone in the line of fire you are nuked, I guess people get used to just staying quiet but yeah here we have a healthy level of community discord that gets things changed.
You can always power up :)
I never downvoted you and for what its worth, I don't want to see Blurt go to zero.
Old WTP thinks he can come back because things are bad here. I'm here to tell him he will get downvoted again.. and again. I can't see you coming back, all the best to you here.
Wow, you're a completely gullible dumb fuck.
And I mean stupid. Like wow. If you listened to my calls to power down and sell hive when I saw the price starting to go parabolic, you'd have 200k USD in your pocket right now. But you're too stupid...hive mind, that's all you have.
I don't think I ever called you stupid, or directly insulted you. It show the gulf of intelligence between us and breeding. Chavs are born chavs, and there is nothing they can change.
I'm bored here now, won't be coming back.
hive became an incredibly negative place to be and bought 0 joy so I had to make it so I would Never be tempted to log back in again and I have not and I feel 100000 times better for that decision, even if blurt or steemit went to 0.
I am not talking about you , I don't have a problem with you or with hive as an actual platform I have a problem with a small handful of people that essentially run the platform in a draconian way. I only ever got downvoted for defending others because I couldn't sit by and watch. It all actually began back in 2017 when I witnessed some of the founding members of what is OCD in a private group in steemit chat nuking small accounts and newbies for fun and taking the piss out of them, whilst pretending to help in the main chat. I don't know how I ended up in the private chat, some guy invited me there probably cause I was one of the only girls and I wish to god still I hadn't seen what I saw then and maybe I could have blindly enjoyed steemit for a few years without having off feelings about it from day one, those ppl just only grew in power and made things worse and worse, if the downvote was gone I would have no problem with hive. If any decent person had seen what I saw in those rooms they would not support those people or suck up to them either. One side in public another behind closed doors.
haha great post I read a lot of things what I wrote in my comments to the recent posts about this crazy topic and in my posts about that.
Its good to know that I´m not the only one who is able to look on such issues with a bit more knowledge how one should stear a business, still having in mind that this business isn´t a company if so the actual CEO has to go over board right away.
But you nailed it every time when there is lots of money involved its a business and everyone who is in charge in that has to behave in a normal way there are rules for that, and I guess megadrive must know them he claims always he´s running own business, maybe he thinks this is other kind of business and he is king here but things can turn dramaticly in a few seconds so one is better aware of things to come following rude or doubtful statements.
When the coffee in the morning wasn´t ok then one had to get a better one from somewhere else and not stop to drink coffee, personal feelings has no place in a business, never otherwise its no business than its family and even they wont accept anything.
You made a pretty good overview from the desaster, and normaly one is to blame for that, that´s the way it works (unless your a politician).
Here is comment you might like too, I just left it on "let's Parley!"....what title, like this is one big joke. There needs to be a serious apology to the entire community and the accounts that were to be "frozen".
Yeah, no apologies as yet.....
Wait until I've compiled the stats on my 'accusations without proof'...(quite the eye eye opener from preliminary obs).
Won't take long, but busy with other things right now.
The numbers don't tell the story the dictators would like....bless..
It'll be presented in such a boring fashion, facts and figures - even some whales can understand it. (well, possibly)
Apology or apoplexy. Either is fine.
Truth is a bastard to the easily manipulated, spineless idiots
Go gettem' Penguin. Things are as clear as day now. Lets see what happens on decentralizing day, 7/7 cause I've had enough of this guy making poor decisions that run money and people off of Blurt, destroying everyone else's efforts here.
Possible Solution ….
We have 5 Front ends don’t we ?
Maybe @Ctime, @Double-u, mmmkkk, phusionphil, lucylin, fervi, jerkoff be given one to run …
And @megadrive and others have another one, or 4 since they created them all :
Blurt.blog
Blurt.one
Blurt.live
Blurt.buzz
BlurtLatam
Create a new one called Blurt.Free or something where the people who want completely Free Speech including Hate Speech and Anarchy and unlimited freedoms can thrive …
Maybe people that are toxic to each other can simply choose which Front end to use ?
And the toxic people can be muted on each Front end … or keep open ?
Whatever.
There are lots of Options.
This way people will use the front end they want ?
Free speech or Free Speech with limits ?
Complete Anarchy or some Governance and rules ?
Both could thrive. Both could use Blurt and never have to see or hear each other.
Both Blurt Worlds could live in peace … if they choose.
There will be incredible Competion to retain content creators so rewards will be plenty and the price of Blurt will stabilize and skyrocket. It is in both parties interest to have Blurt price increase so all efforts will be in building great content.
People can choose to support Trump, Putin, Nato, USA, as they so choose….
Total Freedom with 2 venues. Or more…. People will gravitate to their interests and beliefs.
But at least live in harmony … and Blurt goes to $100
Lots available….
@fervi could build one for almost free ….
I've been thinking about this since you mentioned it. The more I think about it, the more I believe you may be totally correct.
I think so too… I’m learning how to build a new Front end.there will be many…
Http://Dblurt.com
For every problem there is a solution.
Congratulations!! your post has been curated by @blurt-network
Use #blurt-network for more upvotes
SHARE THIS POST ON FACEBOOK TO EARN BLURT FROM BLURT-NETWORK
Follow Blurt-networkFacebook page Here
You can delegate blurt power to @blurt-network to support curation
Im sure mega drive said the only other project to get funded was eco synthesiser... now that makes sense lol what a joke this place is becoming. I’m also voting for double u and just anyone that might bring some change here. Anything has to be better than this current scenario. Can’t me or you set up a witness if we can get enough in the top 20 can someone make a change? Or do you just get kicked out of the discord anyways?
Good questions as always. I think we all need to rally behind @double-u, @ctime, and @mmmmk....
At this point I’m willing to jump on and have a go at any attempt at a free speech platform. Something like seeing if they have integrity has to be earnt. I personally just wish mega drive had said look o made a mistake freezing wallets, in a human, im still learning how to be more decentralised in my thinking and I got triggered etc denying it was said rlt made things far worse in my eyes to the point I don’t rly trust anything.
I think my mistake was coming fresh from hive and being a bit too over excited about blurt and less realistic or cautious first. I guess we all wanted so badly to believe in this free speech platform with high morals we probably put it on way too much of a pedestal and only went on reading the premise on the home page. I’m starting to wonder if we just have way too high expectations of these platforms generally and maybe when money gets involved there will always be shady deals, people with ulterior motives, someoen on a power trip, someone using their power in the wrong ways, silencing people they don’t like etc maybe it’s kind of impossible to separate this.
Morpheus emoji:
What if I told you I'm quite satisfied with Ricardo's work?
What if I told you I'm also quite satisfied with blurt?
What if I told you I never left blurt?
It would be contrary to your recent posts and would leave me in confusion, like you just have.
Me too!
Sorry, was there something weird in your cat coffee?
Well I mean it is cat shit coffee after all. So I guess my definition there's something weird in it. Anyhow, seriously I'm very satisfied with his work. I think that he has acted as a good steward of the chain. That does not mean that I always agree with every decision that he makes. That's not really what stewardship is about.
He had to make many decisions, typically without input from myself, and those decisions led to the chain that we have today which overall, I am extremely proud of.
... and dozens of potent users were driven away from this chain by his immature actions.
The price was damaged.
The trust is gone with many users.
I understand under good management something clearly different!
Not even possible to run an economic community without making choices that make some people unhappy.
Really.
It is impossible.
It is possible to make business decisions though that are not 100 percent emotional based and triggered and listen to the rest of your team and not just kick them from the discussion of they disagree. There are bad decisions and then there is this. At one stage blurt was doing very well once the bear market stopped it would have probably hit 6 c without all these ludicrous decisions to chase the top investors off the platform and start threatening to freeze peoples wallets and give funding to only friends projects. Sure it’s not only about money but without blurt having a decent price point it affects the community. I don’t know if trust can ever be bought back to this place a fork is probably required at this point or a change in power. I doubt I could ever trust the current team again personally and I can’t see any big investor trusting putting their money here without some big changes. Gutted tbh I really thought this site was different. Look at any successful business they don’t emotionally engage in arguments all Over their platforms you didn’t see Tom from MySpace or mark from fb getting involved like that in petty arguments. They just let people get on with it and changes and rules are made with code and spokes people who are more impartial. Hive made the exact same mistakes if it could just tame it’s own ego get rid of downvotes and shut the hell up and act in a somewhat professional way I don’t see why if shouldtnt have already been viral by now. I think at some point Elon musk will just create his own one and handle it like a business professional.
Jacobloodykian said that no Hike of transaction fees, but...
...now I can't post this 2,031 words 10,678 characters with 5 images post of mine, I have to wait for additional liquid blurt to come in to post. @world-travel-pro
Just sent you 30 liquid mate! Do your posts!!!! Keep more liquid in the future... Maybe even change the ratio to 50/50..? 🙏❤️
Oh, thanks @outofthematrix you shouldn't have done that but I thank you very much. Usually I power-up what I receive but leaving about 9 Blurts as my daily allowance for comments and content posting. 👍
Nothing for that mate!!! 👍❤️ Always keep 50 liquid!!!
I don’t mind posts costing like 5 blurt or something but if it ends up with comments costing a lot it will really ruin the engagement as atm people comment a lot and it’s actually richt now the only thing making blurt better than steemit is the engagement and community. If people feel they can’t make small talk and every comment has to be deep and likely to get an upvote it could really crash the one thing that’s makes blurt shine. Before account freezing free speech was number one but I’m a little on the fence with that one after the last months showdowns.
For my view there is no justification in hiking the cost of transactions here, what was the reason?, because the recent costs are enough already to cut down spam which was it is intended for. Jacob says now that it is hiked now to cut vile posts which is stupid because what about the other people's posts that don't contain offending words and all that?
It is just an abuse of discretion and totally anti-interaction particularly those that have less liquid blurt to spend. maybe every after oil price hike the transaction fees will also go up and cause comments to get a little shorter like our bread that I always eat here in my place, gets smaller with the same price after oil price hikes.
If they want to ban certain words better to code it like on fb than this for sure.
Oh no I definitely said that I want the transaction fees hiked I would like them very high thank you.
I am going to repeat myself: I would like to see the transaction fees much higher than the current fee level. If you would like to post more, I am certain that you have a good understanding of how to acquire more blurt to fund further posts.
It also means ppl won’t bother with rly well done posts like my travel posts often have 15 pics in and tons of text and with the economic market as it is on here if it’s then going to cost me a lot to post it’s marginally worth it and probably not worth the effort as you can get just as many rewards for like 1 picture rly or a selfie with a blurt logo on it. I personally worry it will just reduce the quality if they go too high.
Blockchain is not designed to adequately code that type of behavior. And I'm not a dev.
Mere words... This Blockchain stores mere words. And it's international in a world of a hundred languages 😐
Removal of the Downvote button and how IT was coded in the other chains makes this one a smarter design. The transaction fees were even more brilliant.
Hiking the fees is a brilliant idea if you ask me. (I know, you didn't)
I can give a much better analysis on the tele but for now, please be as open as can be to Jacob... He Really is a good dood here and I'm hoping you two talk more for the benefit of this chain. 🙏😎🥓🤙
Perhaps if it costs a certain amount to post but the post can be any length for the same cost. Otherwise I rly think right now it’s hardy appealing to make quality posts with the mix of low token value and high post cost. It definitely makes commenting less worth it. I just do it cause I value community but for ppl looking to make money it doesn’t make financial sense to comment rly anymore unless it’s a long comment that will get upvotes. I think there is a path int he middle like 5-10 blurt to post any post of any length and the old small amounts for comments perhaps.
I don’t really mind hiking fees to a point but it will make people put in less effort when the currency is this low. I myself can’t arsed anymore to do rly long travel posts with 20 odd photos and texts if it’s going to go up much more cause it’ll cost me more and just wont even get more in this climate than one photo with orange Tuesday on or something.
Not only major investors were driven away, but also the active German community that had supported Blurt from the beginning was wiped out. Witnesss and RPC servers were shut down and the best RasPi supporter in the world ceased its activities. All in all, a disaster, a great loss that cannot be reversed.
Unbelievable. I entered the scene here just after all this went down. I totally fault myself for not studying up on these issues in detail before investing. Thank you for sharing this and adding it to this post. Currently there are 10s of thousands of dollars now caught between taking a major loss and leaving it invested in something and someone they would never have invested in the first place given all the information coming out. As I said this makes no sense, running off investors.... have we all been caught in some sort of pump and dump scam? Is this price drop part of it? I don't know, but I do know working against investors instead of working with investors, over and over and over again. Is not what I signed up for. By the way I just voted for @double-u for witness. Like it matters at this point. But so be it. Thanks again for sharing this information.
I’m ready for someone to fork this chain personally. Is there no one out there with a bit of business sense than can just start a cool free speech token ran channel,with no downvotes. I keep watching person after person just running their own project into the ground. Hive or steemit should have had mass adoption by now let’s be honest but they just can’t keep their emotional immaturity out of it. Maybe we do just need a completely community driven project like bitcoin. Whoever started these graphene chains they are a genius. Whoever has ran one or been part of running one failed. Not one person had been capable of acting impartially, of acting with business smarts and not literally crashing the project into wall of their own making.
Sounds about right to me. Sorry for the late reply, but lately....this place is making me sick. I just can't stand watching the destruction of what so many put so much time, money, and effort into. Meanwhile they make it sound like it's no big deal, another large investor will take their place. Really? When? Who? A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, and I know @lucylin knows a whole lot about bush. Ooops shouldn't have written that. I'll probably get another bully notice. lol
Ah, und danke für dein Witness-Vote!
Wenn du Lust hast, 16 Seiten auf Deutsch zu lesen, wie alles gekommen ist, dann bitte hier:
https://blurt.blog/blurtgerman/@double-u/closed
Exactly!
Oh no ! I removed the laughter , the photo was so funny but it was not to make fun at @ctime .
Just sayin, you and marky laughing at ctime while he is about to lose a boat load of money at the hands of people you support and agree with doesn't look good in general. Laughing at other's loss, never looks good and is a great way to get supporters of this person to hate your guts. However I give you a free pass...it doesnt bother me, just something that I found very telling about who is in charge and who is placing who in positions of power. I hope you have a good run with your ever increasing position here on Blurt.
I wasnt laughing about ctime , not my style to make fun at people .
I care about blurt , i care about everyone staying here and fight for the community and not against it .
So why do you fight AGAINST it... take a look in all your Activities and you need to see how CONTRA you are....
Well , at least i post ..do you ? ..i buy coins ..do you ? I curate ..do you ?
And i am not against blurt foundation ..are you ?
@opedia, the platform needs you to help make peace and keep our largest investors here on the platform for the good of everyone. Can you please help foster a welcoming environment for them in whatever way you can? I know this will turn people towards you in a positive way. This will be good for you, the blurt price, and the community at large. Thank you in advance for being a peace maker for the good of everyone here.
Teasing
To suggest anyone has legs, and can run anything, or anywhere, is legist appropriation, and is blatant bullying of those who have no legs.
Labeling
To suggest some one is capable of laughing, would suggest having a sense of humor - A label.
ECT.
Finding things is frowned upon within the @bullywatch, especially if it involves those who do not want things to be found.
This is a first warning !
@bullywatch is intolerant of :
Free speech,
Opinion,
Any kind of disagreements.
......Or pointing fingers at anyone that the foundation fathers:
Support,
Shag,
Get stiffy's through the use of webcam services,
Or requires the saddling up a large white horse with some white knight armor, and all the appropriate virtue signalling regalia that comes with it.
Thank you for the warning. Next time I'll do my best to keep my mouth shut and keep my opinions to myself. My most sincere sincere apologies.
You're very welcome - here to serve and protect !
Thanks for writing this bro.
"Blurt needs @jacobgadikian to come back"
Noted! Personally I don't know him, and other than you and @frankbacon vouching for him, I'm totally in the dark. I can't personally give my support to somebody I don't know. But I'm willing to give somebody a chance, definitely! I think having him do some interviews and such would really help me and others decide if we can get behind him. Not that I don't value your opinion greatly, I'd just also want to investigate myself.
"the real selling hasn't even yet begun"
Agreed. Some big powerdowns have had 1 of their 4 so far. Many others, like me, have not begun to powerdown. I am still trying to catch up on the current events and drama before making a decision, and yesterday was a total loss because my toddler had horrible abdominal pain and we almost had to take him to a doctor. So I'm still not informed enough to make a good decision.
"Other large investors including myself are watching this and losing all confidence in Blurt. We are powering down more millions of blurt, we all will be dropping the price and removing our curation support from the community as well."
Well up until this point I have followed your example for the most part, but now I'm not sure if that's the right path for me. I'm already too late, for one thing. You have to be on the leading edge of these moves. It's too late for me, I've already lost 80% or more, and even if I start now, I won't have anything to sell for another 7 days.
I have stopped all buying of BLURT, no doubt there. I tried buying the dips, but I just keep getting slaughtered. My savings are safer in HIVE right now, shameful to say it. I'm just asking to be stomped each time I convert to BLURT. Maybe there will be a bottom at some point, but clearly we haven't hit it, with all the crap still going on around here :(
"a backroom deal"
My paranoid juices are flowing, yeah. Something stinks. Some people's actions do not seem to make sense. We probably don't have all the information, that's why.
"you win some, you lose some, and life goes on"
Sadly, it's more serious for many of us here. Some of us were sucked into the promise of income in exchange for content, back on Steem. Remember "get paid for your original content"? Remember everybody saying "leave facebook, stop giving them your content for free, come to Steem and get paid for it!" For years, that was the message, and millions were influenced by it. It appealed to me for many reasons, one of them being it could help me become independent of the system.... the system I fight against. I don't want to be reliant on government because of my disability. I want to write and photograph and protest and video and earn my own way. I don't want to raise my beautiful children with state help. I was THIS close to making it happen, after years of that carrot dangling in front of my face... or so it seemed.
But I've proved, you can create amazing content, original documentaries seen by tens of thousands of people, viral articles, groundbreaking research, and more, and still not make anything. Sure, I've had many $50+ posts over the years... but where are they now? I have no way to spend that "money". It's just a constantly-deflating series of 1s and 0s to me and my family. We had to make the move to Hive, and then when we finally made it, you know what happened. Blurt was our only option, and I ended up putting my money where my mouth was, and now it's gone basically to zero. I've lost 10 years of full-time work. I didn't do anything else during those 10 years. I risked and sacrificed every day, telling myself it would be worth it eventually. Now my health is going, fast, and I really need a safety net. But my ENTIRE effort has been reduced to nothing and there's nobody I can blame except myself. So, "life goes on" comes across as a bit tone-deaf. I know you didn't mean it like that, but just saying. I know you're upset and just speaking your mind., gotta respect that.
You're my main curator lately, especially with all the whales pulling out. So with you powering down and withholding curation, I'm all but forced to do the same. What chance do I have, if you can't make it? I'm feeling squeezed and optionless. Exactly where I didn't want to be, and tried hard to avoid, yet here it is anyway.
"Without investment and a higher price, Blurt has no value."
Very true. Price isn't everything, but it's the main thing. Without a stable and/or rising price, we are dying. Grow or die, a universal truth. These chains attract content, and investment, and consumers, when the token price is rising. Seen it a million times now. And we shrink and atrophy when the price drops. So yeah, maybe it's a buying opportunity. But only if there's a future here. And there's only a future if the place is set up correctly. And it can only be set up correctly if the people paying the rent and keeping the servers up have their heads screwed on properly. From what I have seen, that is currently not the case.
So yes, we cannot be 100% decentralized, that is true. But the "foundation" has been offering a false dichotomy. They say it's either them, or total ruin and chaos. I say there are other options. Better options. They could have been part of the solution, instead they chose to go tyrannical. Bad choice around a bunch of freedom-fighters, woops.
We can APPROACH decentralization. Keep our "government" as small as possible. Be libertarian about it. Tiny, transparent, and powerless public servants. The owner(s), people who officially pay the bills and such, are not to be dictators. They have a specified and limited role, and are paid a set rate, and that's it. They should be separate from developers and witnesses etc. They should have little impact on day to day operations. They are mostly removed. And then we have the tiny libertarian and transparent group running things around here, subject to witness decisions and community feedback.
If this is not the URL for that to happen, we can find a new one. At this point we are basically starting at zero anyway. Get a few good people and investors and let's go, I'd be interested for sure. Either get this place running right, right now, or let's evolve.
Couldn’t agree more on your last paragraph I’ve been making this point many times that is why Facebook and MySpace made it and hive and steemit and now blurt failed any type of mass adoption because the people who are ‘running it’ can’t stop from emotionally exploding all Over the site, acting from triggers and Just looking like high school kids not business leaders. You never saw Tom or mark get into a back or forward with its users or tell them to eat shit. Any changes or account removals are either done by trigger words in code or a panel that have no real investment in the platform other than getting a wage. How is it so difficult for one of these sites to just mirror that kind of business model that has been at the heart of every single business since the dawn of time. You don’t see the head of Coca Cola poking his head in on the twitter page and getting upset with people who say they don’t like Coca Cola. I hate to say it but out of the lot of them Justin Sun is the most professional so far and that’s cause he’s busy working on other products and businesses and after the initial fall out he’s mostly been quiet and just leaving steem to run itself it seems. I think he even stepped down recently. At least he’s somewhat acting like a business man, more than the others anyways. You might not like the way it’s ran but I don’t see petty fights on there from the founders anymore. Maybe I just don’t see them but Steem could be the dark horse. Hive and blurt have been ruined by ego and a need to control that couldn’t be put aside and has completely cut their platforms off from gaining any kind of mass adoption.
Agreed! Although Steem is a disaster for other reasons now, even though you're right that there are no more drama-filled posts from angry management etc.
The reality is I don't know him either. I just know he is supposedly the more logical yet less involved of the two founders. To say I'm vouching for him or have confidence that he can rectify this mess, is not really the case. It's more like we have no choice but to root for him to make things right. Seems like he is the only one with enough power and influence to save the price and platform. I only wish I knew him as an old college buddy or something, cause at this point I have no clue if will step up to the plate or not. I'm sure he is privately being spoken to by @megadrive now and that will probably influence him to do nothing. Now, on that statement I would truly love to be wrong.
Reminds me of your other post that got me rattled. I feel horrible and partly responsible for this. My sincere apologies and condolences, I also hope you son is feeling better. I had no idea blurt was new boss same as the old boss on hive. Literally taking direction from hive watchers! I'm totally dismayed to say the least. Yes, I may not have a chance to take anything other than an 75% plus loss as well. I may not sell, and in hopes the opposing view sweeps in to buy this dip heavily. After all @megadrive is making this place more "safe" and I know a lot of people just love that.
I don't mean to be insincere or insensitive with my personal position of "you win some, you lose some, and life goes on" I'm fully aware of how much effort and time you put into this trio steemit/hive/blurt and have come up short handed. I would be beyond disgusted too. This is why I always chose a set amount to invest (hold) in these platforms then convert all my earnings into physical gold/silver or bitcoin or living expenses. But don't think I don't feel for your loss, and still life does goes on, for better or worse, life goes on. I'm sure you will find a way to support your family and go forward.
Personally I plan to invest and do business in the real world going forward, as this virtual blogging space is just filled with unknown risks. I'll probably do something with food and farming, I know you have quite the green thumb, maybe that is an opportunity for you as well. This has been a lesson to me, that there is simply know way to confidently invest in crypto when this space is filled with everything from running off investors as good business strategy, to the terra luna guy selling 80 million dollars a month of luna before it crashed to zero. Seems like their is a snake behind every blade of grass, and you, I, and the general masses are all on the menu. As for Blurt, even if the snake is not a snake, dumb business sense will suffice until the snake gets here.
Gold and Silver in hand my friend is the opposite of all this bullshit. Why I highly advise people divert into physical gold and silver when times are good, so you can bail yourself out with it when times are not good. Again these words probably don't help you in the moment but in time you will recover and get a surplus income and maybe you will reflect back on this valuable financial insurance I refer to as physical gold and silver.
Again, I hope there are no hard feelings in regards to you and I. I don't believe there are. Trust me, I'm just as disgusted with this BS as you are if not more. A real shocker, no doubt about it.
You're right that there are no hard feelings. I like you as a person and we agree on so many key issues, that stuff like this is just noise... water off the duck's back! You are not responsible for anything other than what you said and did, and I have already said it was me who decided to move my savings to Blurt. I hope I can moan about my pain in the future without you being too concerned I'm blaming you! Did you encourage me? Of course. You didn't do it to cause me harm, I know that, and wouldn't hold it against you. In fact, I am still thankful that you shared your views and spend some time to talk to me about it. It hasn't worked out (yet?), but that's not your doing. I hope we can use this to solidify our mutual respect and friendship.
I retract my comment that you were vouching for @jacobgadikian. But you did make a post to say you thought Blurt needs him. Guess I could have said that instead of "vouch"!
"Seems like he is the only one with enough power and influence to save the price and platform."
Okay, fair enough. A bit of a Hail Mary! Well, noted... but I'm still somewhat hopeful. I saw a few of his posts and you're right, he seems more level headed and professional.
Note to viewer: I'll now be up-voting more of my own comments to offset my time and increased posting costs.
I've upvoted my own stuff before. It's quite easy. 🤬🥓
Approaching decentralization appreciatively
🙏🤬🥓👍
I feel your pains
Its really frustrating
Sorry for your losses.
https://blurt.blog/blurt/@themarkymark/rduk1c
I here you brother. This shit is beyond fucked up. I'm gonna do a post and see if I can bring some common sense to the forefront, whether you guys are open to it or not. Some things just need to be said.
https://blurt.blog/blurtvip/@mariuszkarowski/rdzzg5
I wish I saw this sooner. Very impressed and very happy to see some good news coming out from what was beginning to look like a rotting corpse.
Re🤬eD
Thank you world-travel-pro!
Thank YOU
THANK YOU!
You are very welcome. Unfortunately you, I, and anyone with opposing political views or opposing views in general are not very welcome here. Let s go one step further, the two main supporters of my blog and other blogs with a conservative political leaning were supported by @ctime and @mariuszkarowsk. Is that a coincindence? I doubt it. I don't see megadrive or others in his camp hardly ever voting anything tagged informationwar. Maybe @rycharde from time to time. A member of the "foundation" who is awkwardly quiet along with @saboin on the decision to essentially destroy the platform and run off 10s of millions of blurt.
@rycharde you are in support of these major accounts being frozen or forced to sell? Do you think this is fair to them and all the bloggers they supported after months of effort here and putting large ammounts of money into their purchases?
Also, this mess is a really good political point to rally around. I have the BLURT I need... Let's take this chain up a notch.
Please don't get upset over something that MD could not do. He talks shit... So do cowards... So what?
Way I see it YOU personally have better clout to organize. I elect YOU as a new Foundation. In fact I should join you with my own Foundation.
The point is all this hoopla is going to get yous what you Really want... A crypto community.
By hell or high water, ye shall have it 🤬🥓
Thank you so much for the high regards. I ll do my best to continue to lead by example. We ll just have to wait and see if anything positive can come from it. One thing I can not do is drive a car with MD's foot on the brake.
.....it's really is all quite unbelievable - the hive watcher connection especially.
SERVED BY REG THE BLM-er
Harassment - tagging our benevolent founding fathers more than twice.
Putdowns - Suggesting our founding fathers is a colluding with hive watchers and suggesting he is a pretty shit businessman, generally.
Labeling - Suggesting one of our founding fathers conducts, with no evidence of musical ability whatsoever.
Lol this account is genius 🤣
You won't be saying that when I serve notice on you!...I've got my beady eye on your comments young lady, and my pad is at the ready...
Surely i already broke some?
takes pad out.....
I think it would be a good idea too if @jacobgadikian came back to support us... We can use any help we can get at the moment...
What’s your experience with the witness channel you have been 25 at times do you ever get let into decision making/ witness decision making / get to express an opinion?
There is a good tone there - lotsa respect and everybody is being heard... This is a learning by doing process I think... My impression is that everybody is doing their best in the interest of Blurt! I have a good feeling! 🤙🍀
If you have an opinion that’s the complete opposite of the others do you feel heard? Is it respected? Cause when I see screen shots it’s looks like that person is just told to leave but your in there and I trust you more than people I don’t know at all so can you confirm you could completely disagree with MD and others and be heard and respected and your opinion taken on board?
You know I am not a discord fan... I like it out here on the chain... But the few times I have been in there, it is as I described above. Topics being discussed and problems looking to be solved... 👍 I know you are unsettled, but shake it off and move on... Everything is going to be alright!
Lol sometimes it’s not about shaking things off sometimes you have to advocate for change and ethics. The main thing right now is transparency and as a witness we voted in I asked a really simple question about how disagreements are handled in the discord chats and the answers even from you seem to be avoidant ? Why is this? Are you afraid of disagreeing or something? I really thought you were someone who could be honest etc and speak up your truth.
I’m not looking for a specific answer if you say yes I feel totally happy that I could completely disagree with MD and he would reconsider his stance and I’ve seen people completely disagree with him and get heard and seen him change his opinion on big things then that would also be a cool answer. Right now all I’ve seen is screenshots where when someone has disagreed they have been asked to leave. This might be out of character or there may be more to the story but your answers are quite avoidant lol it’s rhis lack of transparency which a number of us don’t like we just like the truth. This doesn’t look good as the point is that we have to believe if we vote in a witness to represent us they have the capacity to actually make changes.
But have you witnessed someone completely disagree with MD on a big issue and then be heard and MD re considering his opinion? I’m sure it’s all lovely when everyone is in agreement but it’s the disagreements and how they are handled that are important.
The biggest issue for me was the freezing... I showed them all my post that I wanted to discloese and got several feedbacks incl. MD... He said go for it and told me to maybe leave the last part out...and he was right by that! 😜👍So for me, everything is ok...
I’ve noticed even you have changed you used to be a straight talker and now everything’s a bit cautious/ fumbled/ avoidant. Not sure if you realise that but I can see a real change.
But when you said I don’t agree with freezing accounts this is bang out of order did he listen to you and offer it for a vote etc ? How did that decision go? We all want a bit of transparency here cause there is way too much fumbling over stuff and lack of clear concise communication from anyone in charge.
One cant sell if there is no buy orders. Same vice versa.
I agree with the content of your post, but I find it very unfortunate that you previously railed very vehemently against people who had realized this before you!
Don't worry...I've paid for it. Currently about 15k and months wasted time. It's very unfortunate indeed.
I'm sorry for your loss too, of course!
Thank YOU for the warnings (I did see them too)
but some of us HAD to try the noDV situation over here for ourselves...
and I still think very highly of Jacob. In fact his recent appearance and ideas for solutions have been very motivating.
all that said... I definitely appreciate the SH!T you and others have gone thru...
got my own fun stories from the other chains to sympathize with...
BUT world-travel-pro I have come to trust and find him to be a capable person too. He'll get things moving Proper.
Kind regards ✌️🥓