UPDATE: The anonymous whale 
//old:
Nobody said politics was easy...
What a joy it was when I managed to get the witness position back last week, after several days of lobbying and looking out for accounts that could make a change. I can do it without the whales, I have all the community on my side!
Turned out, I hallooed without being out of the wood yet. Some people just don't want me to be a witness.
All talks with the whales lead to the point that it's not my fault, but I'm just a pawn in a game of power between them and 
...but wasn't the disregard for power plays in politics one reason for me to turn to crypto in the first place?
Now I'm way out of the list by missing support from the top 5 whales, while by numbers of votes I am on position 6. Can you imagine the frustration, when 5 people block your projects while over 100 others support them? When 5 people make the difference between position 22 and position 1 on the list?
I have spent more time working on Steem than most others, completely ignoring and finally quitting my day job for it. I support users on Steemit and Slack, I'm manually curating small posts and spam, running an anti-spam bot, produced several open source scripts, a library and a game for Steem. And of course Pevo (https://steemit.com/steem/@pharesim/publishing-scientific-papers-on-steem). This is not enough, because I disagreed with the wrong persons once and thus ended up on the wrong side of their stupid game.
I joined this project because I loved the idea of a decentralized community, rewarding contributors. I'm devastated that it's turned out to be a game for the biggest fish, not the revolution I wanted to be part of.
They do this to show their power to