Open Letter to @GrumpyCat Progress Report

Progress Report

What happened after this post

• The letter attracted attention, including Hive account@grumpycat.
  As of today, the post is seen by 747 people with 83 upvotes and 121 comments.
  Hive account@grumpycat upvoted with a huge upvote and resteemed this post.

• Hive account@grumpycat stopped downvoting since 20.01.2018 - no posts attacked.

• The upvote bot Hive account@boomerang decreased the maximum post age to 2.5 days link

• Hive account@themarkymark blogged a very convincing post on "why we should vote hims for witness" link
  I am convinced to his pure intentions on fighting with spam.
  Moreover, he also accepted to decrease the maximum post age to 3 days.
  
  I am now sure my vote is at good hands.

• The open letter accumulated 194.98 SBD so far.
  Since I never intended to make money from this post and the money mostly came from upvote of Hive account@grumpycat I decided to distrubute the (SBD income - cost) to Hive account@grumpycat victims. The list can be found here
  The cost is the 9 SBD initial promotion cost.
  

Conclusion

I am still afraid of an early optimism but it seems that there are good achievements.
I don't want to fall in "I always whistle at sunrise so the sun is rising because I whistle" kind of fallacy.
If the problem is solved, it is not really important who is behind it.
It is mostly because people involved started to think reasonable.

Either way what we have in our hand is :

• Hive account@grumpycat seems to stop hitting innocent people due to usage of upvote bots.
• Major bots decreased to less than 3.5 days, this is good for spam prevention and good curation
• We have some money to cover Hive account@grumpycat 's victims losses.

That is fair enough.

Stay positive.

FD.