thanks for your comments. I have not been very active on Hive for a few years beyond maintenance of my servers, as I was fulltime overtime building a house. As I am slowly done with that I dabble with what is next in my life. Hive has given me much and I love to give back to hive.

I would not want to go to much into my personal behaviour or response of why I do or not do certain things. As it would take away too much about the core discussion at hand:

• voting: busy to read all content and be a curator. Ok could put more into voting trails or curator teams. Sorry I have ignored you about this, don't take this personally. I am bad at dms and especially if I don't catch it via a notification it might be lost.
• thx for Hivefest: Here I am dabbling with that spending on "a party for the happy few", although this year actually saw a great outcome imho with especially connections between local communities through ChainCulture and this meetup.
• No I am no whale but I've vested 10 years in this platform thus it became part of my identity (like yours too :D)
• The name was not propped up by me, I did the logo. It was one of the names coined during pre-fork times and resounded best with participants in group chats that time.
• still open to read a concise summary of what you want fixed, specifically about the DHF spending which could be implemented. Note there are already voting structures in place and a return proposal.
• Re: I can't be mad at you: You may :) But: I'm not the only one sticking my head out for this. As mentioned in a comment elsewhere on this page: During past meetups over the summer at several (mainly) EU events (from my side at least) we have been discussing this stuff between one-on-one conversations. The idea to do this meeting is as we were still all one-on-one touching on this subject during HiveFest week, idea arose to meet with 12 or so of us, to share the voices between a larger group.
  Where:
  -- "we" is random Hive-people attending these events
  -- "this stuff" is DHF spending, valueplan spending, attracting businesses, being more structured in a still decentralised way, accountability, criteria.