I agree with everything in this post, except for the characterisation of Ned’s interpretation of the “fork as theft”, as “spin”. It is not spin - it is correct. The underlying intention may have been about holding Steemit.Inc to account, but intentions do not justify evil acts. That’s not to say that theft is ‘always’ evil, but it nearly always is. The real questions are, as I see it, is “would the Steem blockchain fail if Steemit just packed up their bat and ball and went home, and would the drastic step of threatening to take their funds make them stay and contribute in good faith?”

The answer to both, osit is, “No.”

Basically, the community is trying to force Ned and Steemit not to make life hard for them by ‘abandoning ship’, and Ned is too self-absorbed to respond to such a reasonable request rationally, thus we have the ridiculous farce that is this whole pathetic episode being blown out of all proportion.

At this point, I am starting to wonder if it would be beneficial for Steemit’s power down to fully complete so this entire community can go ‘cold turkey’ on Ned and Steemit.Inc, and then get down to the hard work of rebuilding the chain into a much less gameable system. The fundamentals are there.

Or y’all could come across to the Telos blockchain where all these inflation-gaming mechanisms were properly addressed since before launch. 😁