Last Steemfest, 
This year, I will try to use the tag #ranttosteemfest to address some issues ahead of time.
The idea is, that during Steemfest it will allow me to behave normal around everybody and just meet them as a person.
If they ask me about how I see certain things, I can calmly point to my blog - I do not have to force a debate on anybody, though.
In these rants, I hope to be able to show how frustrating it can be to use steemd, the state of steem libraries and how Steemit Inc's actions and policies appear from my perspective.
#ranttosteemfest #1
15 minute curation burn
Hardfork 20 came with a lot of changes.
One of them:
If you vote before the 15 minute mark, your voting power gets burned.
If you vote too early, you might burn all of your curation rewards.
The rewards will not go towards the author, but instead go back to the reward-pool.
The main effect is that it further impedes organic and manual usage of the blockchain.
What happened to KISS ( keep it simple stupid ) ?
How do you think the average internet user will handle this rule ?
How many will understand it ?
What is the purpose ?
How is this better than giving these shares to the author as curation rewards ?
Why does the steem api still support the 'autovote' feature, when it clearly would be a complete waste of resources to use it ?
Why did this come with a full host of changes again ?
Why do hardforks have to be this drastic ?
Can we not incrementally change one feature at a time and observe the outcome independent from other tweaks ?
Was it necessary to include this change into HF 20 ?
As usual, I feel like shouting these questions into a void.
Other than github, I have no sources to see who is working on what and what their intentions are.
Perhaps this will become clearer in the next episode of #ranttosteemfest:
Who is the CTO of Steemit Inc ?
I bet you did not know and have no idea, when he was employed.
Spoiler: http://goldibex.com/ <- this is his personal/professional homepage.
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For now, I invite everybody to join the tag, and rant away.
How do you think about the 15 minute lockout ?
Let's get it off our chests, so we can fully enjoy Steemfest !
