But there is no symmetry here, no "both sides". There's a witness who failed his job. There's an objective metric for this. I'm not triggered, I'm disappointed that we have to discuss such basic matter.
Whole thing should be like:
- I messed up, sorry guys.
End of story.
I wish the world was nicer.
Yeah, but the world isn’t nice - and one reason might be that the UN Security Council tries to be nice instead of doing its job. We should strive to be better than that.
Or maybe we’d all be dead if the UN Security Council wasn’t nice? Maybe if you want it to be any better, competency and the ability to stay on good terms with people you don’t agree with are both required and things go sour when you only have one?
The idea that blocks are the only job a witness has and the idea that they should also be this or that, that’s two sides. No end of story.
I think he was being overly defensive, but I think “take care of your blocks first and then we can have this discussion” could be communicated better, there’s still a discussion to be had about who deserves to be a top 20 witness, otherwise what’s the point having the ability to vote for them.
I agree that just keeping the chain running is a low bar, and I also agree that it’s the most essential part and he should probably take care of that before lecturing the rest of you.
I just wish one of you could have effectively convinced him of that so I don’t have to😒
I don’t like getting invovled in this stuff. I used to have a ton of support from whales 2018 until i made a fuss about the bidbots and rallied to change something. In the end i made my case to the chain, got little thanks for it, lost suport from some whales and had my biggest supporter chased off chain.
I’ve been homeless at hive for a while now, tried starting my own communities but the entire chain sucked at onboarding and it felt like an empty city. I didn’t have the influence or resources to make Hive something people would eant to use and I saw Leo actually solving what no else was, and they took me in.
I like what they are doing with short form and creating other income streams (for themselves and creators) and the collaborations with other crypto ecosystems. I like that they value my support thus far. I don’t really wanna be the one to piss off one of the only influential people at Hive that shows their appreciation for my presence here after 7+ years.
I have more to lose than all of you, so I wish you could have convinced him and not forced me to risk losing my support again. But I’m not a politician and I don’t just try to please my doners so I’ll try to convince him anyway, because I see that what they are building is really important for the chain and I want to encourage them to be even better.
I think that is the attitude people should come at this from, wanting to see everyone become better. It’s better for the chain and all its participants.