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I'm in, but ....
Let's not lose track of the fact that the price of Steem, and our voting power with it, is determined by the hardcore investor who is not powered up and can sell at the drop of a hat.
I'd also like to point out that 80% of my followers are either Bots, or dead accounts, so any action that makes people leave in anger is something the regular poster is paying a price for.
So yeah, I'm in, but as what? Blogger or investor?

It is a near thing for me. Like most I was pretty pissed off at some of the attitudes when commenting and voting was coming back. I certainly learned of a few accounts that will never ever get a vote from me, not saying which ones, because of their post HF actions. I found it despicable that one made a post asking for votes and comments then sending those that could do nothing to his discord room while upvoting his own post and comments at 100% and I think I saw only 2 votes during those 6 hours to another account. Another is an individual that made an asinine remark and then went and did what the person I just described did, he did give a few 10% votes out to others but a lot of self votes to himself, thus that was why I made several comments about not letting the Orcas get all the rewards for that day when votes finally returned to me, even though at a very low power I found real people to vote on. 

I will be riding out the backsplash waves the next few days to see what happens, I doubt that when tcpolymath removes his delegation to me for the UA experiment that I will stay in support of a supposed Reputation System that has one of those two individual so highly ranked, so even though the votes were extremely nice and large, I do not think I will support such a failed, (in my eyes), system. 

On the plus side I think it would be a real kick in the pants to the top 20 witnesses if @fulltimegeek makes it to the top 20 and has that light blue bar to the left instead of the right indicating that it was the smaller users, that support him, and not one or two large accounts supporting him. 

During the down time, I do do a lot of looking back, especially at the HF17 issue. From what I was reading it was all about a lack of engagement that had so many people upset back then, I found it pretty ironic that this HF wanted to pretty much do away with engagement. They should not have scheduled this HF for the full moon.

I am new to STEEMIT and so far so good, but I am not going to lie. This platform and the new update is a little confusing. I still enjoy the idea of it enough that I would like to try and share on here more and grow new friendships but it seems so hard. I don't get the whole comment and post limit thing. Posting a few times a day is a lot for me but it is weird to me that they only let you do it some much and limit you. Even though the limit is a lot it is still there which I find odd. They seem to really limit some users. Do they limit other things like that for the little users on here as well? I am starting to understand the term minnow now. (Sorry, naive noobie trying to figure the HF2o out...)

I am in as long as they don’t do something to break the #OneLoveDTube project. It didn’t look very good at first, afterwards it still seems like an intentional purge. As is we lost delegations and many left our trail, I have invested everything I have into the #OneLoveDTube project which isn’t much and I don’t get a whole hell of a lot in return. Basically all the hard work over the last several months has been reset and we have even had to recode our discord bots we use for curation. As of now I’m still here, no I am not impressed.

This has exposed many of the potentially fatal flaws of Steemit, many extend from the foundation only to be hidden by patchwork on the visible structures.

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I am sticking around. A little hard fork cant get rid of me.

Well.. I'm in because I have no other place to go when my wife is sticking here too 😂 well, I got fork too and I can use that fork to learn how cool the community is and how people still keep helping each other despite of their own situation 😊 I just feel lucky, I reach my 20 SP right before the forky day and drain my VP to 1% after a testing post which made me reconsider the reset my steemauto only for the right posters, but now I saw the VP reach to 98% again in a day.

Seems like it is all good. I felt the same way for sure. Hopefully SMTs will be a glorious addition here soon!

I'm here for the long haul, the fork was just a bump in the road.  I just hope that the witness and Steemit, Inc take the time to learn from the mistakes and prevent them in the future.  It is better that it happened now instead after SMT's are added.

I have nowhere else to go, so I guess you guys are stuck with me.  Besides the poker is the best here!

Just like you I was upset and pissed off.
I don’t think we should blame the witnesses because I don’t know who’s responsibility it was to test HF20!
And I do think that we can agree that it wasn’t tested at all!
I will just continue like normal and evaluate after 1 month!
Cheers,
Peter

Hey, @thedarkhorse.

I am here, but as always, if another opportunity arises that surpasses the STEEM experience, I will check into it. I'm not that happy with how things went, and I'm less happy with the fact that protocols that will be in place at some point because of the way HF 20 is working out wasn't in place beforehand. Why not? Were they deemed unnecessary? Did they think they were infallible, or that people were sufficiently doing their job?

Weeks before, I was concerned something would go wrong—I know I wasn't alone—and that concern was not met with much of anything other than, "We've got this." Some of it included more attitude than that, but whatever. I think it's readily apparent that arrogance was a part of the issue, along with a desire to push things through at any cost, and deal with the fall out.

That's basically where I'm at right now.

I'm here! at least for now. The ting that bothered me wasn't so much the fact there were unforeseen issues, it was the disconnect they had about it. Saying all was well at first, and then saying it was _only_ those that were "highly" active that were affected. Ah well, no place to go but up from here, I hope.

I'm definitely in, but must admit that the few days off has allowed me to look at some other options that I never did before...so might mean less time on steemit (not much!lol)
But I'm 'in it', to see where it goes, that's for sure!

I'm *IN* fyi :)

I saw the shit storm about to begin, and I just knew it was going to contain a swirl of misinformation, angry posts, complaining, threatening etc, so I simply shut my laptop several days ago, and re-opened it today.  There are still a few shit-clouds around, but I do see the sun and common sense breaking through.  It's a new day, and like many here I assume, we'll just continue on and see what happens.

I'm not a quitter.  Never have been :)  See you Tuesday @pifc!!

Staying. Steemit Inc needs to hear that they must hire a team of test engineers.

You got a 51.42% upvote from @ocdb courtesy of @thedarkhorse!

I'm definitely sticking around, I have a vision for Steem and manifesting it requires being a part of our communities. Like you say, this is a minor deviation in young technology. Looking down with the eagle eye we put it all into perspective

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So many forking posts, need some spoons :-)
I'm sticking around, there are really good folks
on steemit, made some great friends in the year
I've been here. Rather shocking to see the train
come to a stop and sit on the tracks all out of
steem. Reloading steemworld and seeing the
lowests number ever seen on the wheel, even
more shocking lol

But with anything there is always bumps along the
road, potholes and realigning of the tracks. A few
extra rail spikes, some strikes and all is golden again!
Looking forward to the steeming years ahead ☀

I was also pretty upset when the fork hit the fan,  I had just posted my magnum opus to Dtube literally seconds before it all happened.  (Tried to edit the post immediately after posting and couldn’t).  I was starting to get into a groove here and felt like my drummer had all of a sudden been knocked off the stage.  
However in retrospect, though things could have probably gone down with more transparency and better planning, I think that since what these folks are trying to do here is relatively cutting edge in a lot of respects they are bound to hit some funky notes now and then.  Comes with forging new ground.

Then again, I’m obviously a musician not a programmer so I have no idea what I’m actually talking about.  ;)

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No question about where I stand, IN!

It sucked and was annoying but things and getting back to normal and STEEM is rising (like it should).