I like your writing and dedication to the effort of disecting issues well. I don't agree with you on everything, and am not interested in everything you write about, but I think there's usually great quality there and I vote for you often. Your writing has inspired me a lot and I thank you.

I want to respond to some of the things you've said because they are a direct provocation and I think some of it is pretty unfair and incorrect.

Many people fear the negative and getting involved in standing for something that doesn't directly, immediately and personally involve them.

There's no reason to believe that, it's an assumption which does not hold. This is insubstantial and unsubstantiated.

It's not their fight, so then don't really care about what is going on. And worse, they don't care to understand, so they just look at it however they want join in the bandwagon of "look at the whining, pathetic asshole losing his cool!"

You talk about the flagging issue as if your perspective is certainly correct and that they choose to ignore this. It's a misrepresentation. Many people disagree with you. It's patronizing to say that people need to "wake up" and don't "care to understand". I think many people have taken the time to read your numerous posts on the subject, that's not fair to them.

On the subject of losing your cool, yep, this is not a good method of getting support, obviously, you know this. That you haven't cooled down over days is making it much worse.

Maybe people will eventually give a shit if the noise is so loud they have no choice but to pay attention.

Sounds like a threat. 😢 I hope you're not implying something like iloveupvotes / topikzmonster / livemoral / livehonest etc. etc.

If a community wants to actually create REAL UNITY, they need to unite under truth and morality. [...] A community that leaves someone hanging when they fight for whats right, isn't a real community. [...] It's a symptom of being conditioned into cowardice and fear of standing for what right. This pervades all of society. I tried to previously teach about this in previous work, the importance to stand for what's right, and the fear of ostracism, standing with others. I understand the psychological factors that have us in fear and cowardly tyo stand and act against things. I really get it. Sometimes people get together to stand together on issues, but as a society we aren't united anywhere. We just go along to get along.

You're describing yourself on a massive high horse here. Unite under truth and morality? Fighting for what's right? How can you presume to be on the side of right, truth and morality? You sound like a religious zealot. To say that you were trying to "teach" about these things confirms that, and to be honest sounds very arrogant.

Again, just because you do not have support on this issue does not mean you have been abandoned in some way by the community. As you well know the system is designed with down votes for a reason, dan has reiterated this fact in a comment here which most of us know.

Let me make this clear. If I agreed with you, and wasn't extremely put off by your attitude, I would "stand with you" in an effort to do something about it. I'm more interested in discussing the apparent issue and trying to come up with real solutions than defend you in some spat with smooth, berniesanders or whoever. I don't like the way any one of you is acting here and I'm not taking sides, not because of fear, but because I don't care about petty squabbles. I care about improving the system and working well within what we have.

The only option I have is to speak, and keep speaking, and keep making noise... or else... NOTHING! Nothing at all will happen if no one speaks up. I spoke up, and will continue to speak up.

There is another option you seen to have not considered. Trying to organize. That's what effective communities do when there's a problem. There are plenty of people who see this as a problem, plenty who don't. You don't have to rant on your own, and it's not a good strategy. Team up and try to make it happen.

All I had to do was keep coasting along and keep my head down doing my own thing, just ignore problems in Steemit. Because THAT is a real, good "community" member, right? Just care about myself alone and my self-interest to keep making rewards, keep my high payouts, and just take the flag once in a while. Sure, that would have been easier. [...] I did what I did because this is an issue about the abuse of power and bad behavior on this platform. Everyone who wants to turn this into "KrNel just wanted to keep making big rewards" doesn't understand because they don't want to understand.

You didn't actually really do anything except make a few ranting posts, progressively more angry. Again, there's a third way apart from keeping your head down (which I think is misconstrued as an idea anyway) and shouting about it.

So I'll keep making noise, keeping the tension and friction on this issue to generate the interference for people to notice something is up and needs to be addressed.

I think if you do you'll probably be ignored because that is not the kind of community a lot of people want to see. And that would be a loss to the community and a shame because you are a good writer. 😕