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you and Hive account@abit sprung this on us

No Hive account@abit and I didn't. A large number of major stakeholders aka whales decided to stop voting or vote with lower power, or to downvote those who continue to vote with very high power thereby grabbing an even larger portion of the pool in the process. Whatever Hive account@abit and I did or didn't do was and is only a small part of a large number of individual decisions by stakeholders to vote differently (mostly, not at all).