Steemit.inc's efforts are hugely appreciated.  I am very happy about this, I hope with some adjustments, HF17 can move forward with strong consensus among witnesses.  Hard forks need to become routine, despite the challenges that presents.

Looking forward to the next update, when it becomes agreed upon. :]

I have an unanswered question, please:

When HF17 was originally announced, it was stated that **POSTS** could be edited permanently rather than only for a month.... I seriously hope *that* has not changed? Could someone knowledgeable please comment?

I'm asking because I've recently seen multiple summary articles about HF17 mentioning only *comments* as being editable...

I would really appreciate an answer on this, Thanks in advance.

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How about instapay ongoing forever, someone   upvotes boom 1 cent in your wallet, any flags can nullify future upvotes.

Does Steem have the same broken governance of Bitcoin?

Appreciate the update... does seem like there should be a way to move forward with the items that were NOT "controversial" (or that most witnesses had no significant issues with) and hold off on the items requiring further discussion and changes... make a "17.1" a month down the road... not sure the *"all or nothing"* approach serves the community best.

Hello !  What does it mean when a payout is declined ?  I see this post with a potential payout of  $ 23.51 that has been declined and am wondering what that means ?  Thank you for your feedback.  Best regards.

surprised!

I salute this decision. Looks like being a witness and having your say starts to matter. I'm still keeping an eye on this project and I will encourage every move towards meaningful contribution and improved communication.

Bravo.  I am all for experimentation, but I am glad you are seeking consensus.

I really appreciate all of the hard work that everybody who is working on hardfork 17 is putting in. I know that it can be very stressful for everybody involved especially when trying to reach a consensus. 

I know that it would be easier to push through with fewer changes. Although, I think a number of changes that are trying to be made is a good thing. We don't want to have to many changes on a constant basis as it may be hard for newer users to grasp what is going on when things are changing to often. Either way thank you again for working hard!

Is a list available of topics where consensus is not reached? I'm very interested to know.

Ya'll said that like it was us and them.
At this point community outrage has made it's self known.
Better to talk in terms of us, and not as a separateness from us, imo.
Decrees don't fly in a consensus environment, thankfully.

I can tell you that I have chosen Steemit over busy on customer service grounds, I would just as quick pick minds over this place, if they had steem, also because of customer service issues.

Somebody is going to have to manage community relations, probably best to crowd source that, but it will be up to Steemit to build the structure that facilitates efficient community polling.

I'd like to see cheetah and steemcleaners supported by Steemit.
@anyx has expressed his disillusionment with the project, and it is very important in the ecosystem, imo.
Either incorporate it, or make a deal with anyx to secure their continuation?

SP  delegation has already been decried in the guild fiascoes, let's not try to make that institutional?
Banding together for power is bad when the republicrats do it, let's not do it here, huh?
If you need to farm out your voting, use @steemvoter just like a regular user.

I don't like changing the payout window, but only on default grounds, this is better than that, but neither is optimal due to blockchain issues, ie, no square roots, bias against changing old blocks, etc,...

Thanks to @smooth and @abit we can put the n2 on the back burner, though I would like to see numbers on the proliferation of sock puppet dolphins equating to nearly the same situation.
Allowing the low sp accounts to matter in the math has excited the user base like nothing else I have seen, up to this point.

Thanks for your time and attention,....

Is it an option for the developers to divide the changes in smaller chunks in order to be able to convince more witnesses?

Yeah..  I hope the best thing happpen for us. Nicev!

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the thing i dont like the most is 7 days payment.

**1st payment should be as 24 hours like now** just without comment votes extending it (now with 1 big comment vote every 24h we can keep old post trending forever)

 second payment can be 7 days instead of 30