aggrandizing for us plebs

This is a trying time, a time where we need champions like you. People's Champions. I truly hope your shining example of speaking up resonates with this community, a decentralized community of powerful, free thinkers who won't have the wool pulled over their eyes. (I hope I have enough RP or mana or whatever other nonsense needed to post this comment!)

As we all move ahead in 'oneness..."Reversing Forward. Future Is History"

I want to congratulate you @ned .   People wouldn't comment or even waste their time if they didn't care.   There have been some really cool things the STEEM blockchain has accomplished and it has been an interesting experiment.   

What has been created here is hard to replicate.   It is far too expensive and requires too much funding for people to easily build their own platforms to "fix" the issues here.  If it was easy everyone would do it.   

That all being said the platform has frustrated us for over two years.  It doesn't really improve it just changes.   The same scenarios continue to exist that the distribution was an absolute joke and for the most part the witness situation is a complete joke and always has been.

This blockchain has probably made about 50 people more successful than they were before.  Everyone else has been stuck in a frustrating time trap.   

### Congratulations @ned ..... you won

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I am excited to see where 1 million accounts takes us. I remember when you were on TV talking about Steem at 100,000 users. Keep on @ned you are doing great! I am looking forward to SMTs

This is great that you read one comment.  I hope you read the rest.  If you want to make improvements, then it is imperative.  

Also I love that you know that you are a stakeholder.  I hope you also recognize that your customers on Steemit are stakeholders too.  And if you do, then as the leader of this organization it is your duty to address the issues many of the Steemit users will be facing with this new implementation.

And the true shame of it all is that we as steemians can do nothing about the witness situation. As we all know @freedom is a mega account and has allmost all the top 20 witnesses propped up there with his vote. Hell even @aggroed wrote an article about it.
https://steemit.com/freedom/@aggroed/the-twelve-million-dollar-miner-who-is-freedom
maybe in the next hard fork we could address that account so that the rest of us actually have any power to choose witnesses that want to do the job, not just sit in a top 20 spot and line their pockets. If what you say is true about them only testing 2 days ahead of time that is just shamefull and they should be fired by the people. I guess the obvious answer would be "well it is his stake and he can do as he wishes, If you don't like it doomsday then stop being a peasant." As long as witnesses are complacent because they have the @freedom vote in their back pocket we are all stuck with them no matter how hard we try to leverage them out.

Oh what the hell I will burn some resource credits linking to this brilliant piece [right here](https://steemit.com/steemit/@paulag/unmasking-freedom-what-the-data-can-tell-us-steemit-business-intelligence) by another deserving witness @paulag who will never have the chance to get to top 20 because she does not have the vote from freedom and that all but seals her fate to live outside the top 20 no matter what she does. Please help us @ned . This is a way to fix steemit. Also how many RC does it take to eit because I had to do a new comment because it was saying I did not have enough credits to edit a comment but I can make a whole new one. 

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I wrote you a nice letter Ned Scott. A way to solve all these problems and usher us into a new golden age. You ignored my letter and now this thread resembles the french revolution.

#### _[At your desk, Ned](https://steemit.com/steemit/@nigelmarkdias/at-your-desk-ned-2018-09-29-09-48-01)_
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@ned I'm shaking my head

Lemme get this straight, you need rigorous gatekeeping witnesses to stop the shitty code  changes, yet there are sweet fanny Adams that understand the code in its entirety

Inherently you are outsourcing  code QA to people that  are paid for their services by the output of that code.

And that looks like a serious conflict of interest. 

Oh and vote for my witness if you want change 😂

Disappears for months, Shows up to point fingers at everyone but the team that has millions of dollars to spend on resources which are the "gatekeepers". Would flag for self aggrandizement, but I don't want to consume my precious RC on it and I can't afford it anyway, because I was using my power to help users all morning on other threads. Trying to retain some of them before this place goes completely ghost town over crap decisions and poor execution by the aristocracy, that fails at meritocracy.

Dear Ned, Everyone has lost. If there was a time to apologize and show a tiny bit of empathy now would be it. Upvoting for aggrandizement of Resource Credits Depletion Action.

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Hi, @ned, I don't know if you're reading these or not, a lot of people have some pretty hostile responses here and while I feel them I couldn't blame you for feeling like this was going nowhere. However, I have a suggestion for addressing some of these issues, and I hope you'll consider it.

Part of the problem here is that witness rewards aren't tied into testing, code review, and so on. And I believe that they shouldn't be - there are different skillsets required for being a good dev and a good witness. But that means that sufficient testing of the hardforks is unrewarded, which is why no one was doing it.

I propose that we set up a Utopian-like system, supported with SP from Steemit Inc. and the top witnesses, specifically for Steem blockchain development. New code, code review, unit testing, bug reports, testnet experiences, and so on could all be done publicly through posts and rewarded through votes, so that instead of every witness having to do a private review of code that is scattered through github, there would be a reviewable public record of the testing that was being done, and more importantly, everyone could contribute to it. This would provide the incentive for more extensive testing that the current system is lacking without putting additional burden on witnesses, or requiring that any dev who wants to be compensated for that work also run a witness.

This would provide the witnesses with a collection of data they could more easily review, and expertise from a larger group of people reviewing the actual code and supplying their expertise, before making their decision to accept an update. It would also put their information-state on a par with the rest of the community's, so we would not be assuming that the job was being done in the background.

@ned If you want real change it is simple give every steemian equal voting power on such important matters such as witness votes ect.  like this people who actually earn the trust of the users get the power not some entitled  sponsored idiots who could not bother to test or read ...

Welp, I tell ya, @ned... that is why I am working on this thing here that I call the "Dolphin Council" and we are working on making the role "Witness" equivalent and now that I am both, it is morphing into a combination council.  I do not pretend to be the "leader" of this new group, but at this time I am guiding the charter of it.  Your "gatekeepers" speech above gives me some great ideas for the Council.  Thanks. 
As you may have noticed,  Many or Most of the new witnesses are mid-level folks,  which is a good deal.   New Blood, fresh ideas,  different perspectives.  The "DC" hopes to mirror this new(er) Steem Demographic and "inject" these traits into the Blockchain. 
> Personally as a stakeholder I want from this governance a robust combination of conservative process with consistent drive toward innovative development. There are certainly marked improvements to make here in the short term.

Could not have said it better myself, but that sums up a lot of my feelings about the "State Of Steem"...

As we all move ahead in 'oneness..."Reversing Forward. Future Is History"

I’m currently reviewing résumés. :)

As we all move ahead in 'oneness..."Reversing Forward. Future Is History"