pretty sure dawn ended up spawning ark.io, after they kicked (or left) faddat behind.

I am relying on well reputed other people to let me know about things I have no knowledge of. I believe I know which person you speak of, and I am wondering where the moral high ground is when pretty much all of us have benefited in some way from the preminer votes. I know you benefited immensely. I got about maybe 12k steem power from ned/xeldal/etc posts votes.

For this reason, I am altering a parameter of the new system, to have everyone start with the same reputation and stake, a beginner account.

It wasn't my idea to use votes as a counting method, I personally thought it was fine to just field comments. That turned out funny when @archange's bot auto-posted because of how many comments the post got.

It's a nasty little mess we are all in here, isn't it?

So, I am not going to open slather on this, but rather, make sure every possible bad actor mitigation system is included in the parameters of the new platform.

Today, I was invited to answer questions on a discord hangout. It made me realise that muting could have a negative effect on reputation as like a hold on some part of it, and if enough people mute someone, then they can become temporarily a zero reputation, and then they have to make amends.

So, I'm not 100% sure what to think now. I did a bad thing yesterday, flagging a sweet little russian lady who dropped a link in a discord chatroom. I felt very bad about it. If you recognise what you do wrong, then you should have a way to rebuild your reputation, within the confines of strict limits.

I am going to ask this person of what you speak, regarding prison. It sounds pretty serious to me what you say, and I have no way of knowing either way, and I'm not going to mediate on this either. The person in question has been putting some time and effort into helping with this so far, so they seem ok to me.

I have to think further about this. Maybe there is no need to be selective about who can join, just copy the whole user list as at 5th august. Everyone gets the same stake and reputation, and can use muting to suppress reputation. I think it could work out really well, actually.

Every time I do something nice for someone you accuse me of "sucking up."  And the fact is you used to beg for my bot votes before you got delegated power.  I have nothing to gain from contributing to this project as there is no bounties being given.  I am helping because I believe this is a Steemit killer and I want to learn as much programming as I can from @elfspice and at the same time develop my current skills further and utilize my massive Facebook groups to promote a worthy project.  I will not even be receiving any coins in the airdrop as my accounts are well drained out and my reputation is destroyed.  You seem to be an extremely angry person, like your witness friends.  I ask that you please leave all of our former drama out of this new project.  And thank you for editing your comment and removing the part about my upcoming jail sentence.  (September 15th)  It was an a terrible mistake and I am sorry for it.  It will cost me 10,000 dollars in fines and probably a few months in jail.  That is quite enough punishment and I don't need to be ostracized on top of that.  I have not drank in 8 months now and I am just thankful nobody got hurt when I was driving drunk.  Thank you for your time.

We are no longer doing anything with the steem blockchain. I have an RPC server I set to syncing 6 days ago and it's still far from catching up to 5th of august, let alone 8 days since then. 

If you want to keep up to date and join the discussion about what we are doing, come join the Calibrae forum:

http://calibrae.freeforums.net/

This is just an interim measure to help coordinate and focus the social group towards the project. We have people hunting developers to help us make it happen as soon as possible. 

Thanks for your interest, we hope we can build something that actually meets the needs of most people here, rather than strokes the egos of the small minority of in-group people. The design aims to produce a highly stable cryptocurrency, as well as a very resilient and trustworthy witness group, and there will be no ICO - development is entirely self funded though all donations are welcome.

Who can't cope with facts?  https://steemit.com/steemitdev/@steemitdev/steem-blockchain-update-august-2017#@elfspice/re-steemitdev-steem-blockchain-update-august-2017-20170807t203318660z

come join our forum, where no whales can flag your ass down and destroy your earnings, and where the only things we don't want are bad behaviour and trolling. http://calibrae.freeforums.net

it has to be zero. too many big stake users who might join are corrupted as a cesspit. even ones that are mostly nice.

if you voted, you will be considered :)

The bird is called Heliodoxa Jacula, Green crowned brilliant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green-crowned_brilliant it is a native of Costa Rican highlands. 

This is a baby: 

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/b2/a4/0d/b2a40d83ed791ff033b51b98232d0ffa--chris-delia-moustache.jpg

absolutely frickin gorgeous little critter. 

Just wanted to drop that so you know where to find the exact bird we have decided on (it might be one of the most beautiful birds in the world).

Notably, this bird usually does not actually fly when it sips on nectar, it usually tries to sit.

Wow, that is an impressive number of followers.

You mean 'critiques'? Yes, until I started to learn what a hell is working with the software, and learning how little steemit cared about developers. Before that I was offering up plenty of good suggestions. I eventually got to a point where I became furious with how absolutely disinterested they were, how focused only on their own wallets...

Witnesses are needed. We need 11 to operate the network, at minimum, according to what @xanoxt told me.

It may be a while before I have the binaries built, and we need to rebrand the front end. But, I don't think that will take long. There is some decent chances that amongst the Bulgarians I am friends with, someone knows people, and there is also folks working on getting funding to pay for the work. 

Most of the changes are deletes, or massive simplification, so I hope that means it won't take as long to do. I am supposed to be working on some scripts to build the server so that it can be run on windows, linux or macos, with very little work. Specifically also I will be writing a script to automate configuration. Yeah. I know you are a witness. I know you did half that work for yourself. It won't be needed for Calibrae.

Yes, once the artist has finished with matting that photo and creating typography to go with it. It's much nicer, don't you think?

We have an artist who is turning this into the logo image as I type this. This little bird is quite a gem, isn't it? It's called the Green Crowned Brilliant Hummingbird, *Heliodoxa Jacula*, and this photo, which I checked to make sure, is free to reuse and modify.

The name of the project is based on the russian and bulgarian word for humming bird, Kolibri, and it is pronounced the exact same way (ae is pronounced like ee, the russian/bulgarian way of pronouncing the letter i, and the russian pronunciation of 'o' is the same as english 'a')