If it was not clear enough for you already that preminers run the show here, to their own personal benefit, I realized that by delegating millions of Steem Power to supposedly innocent causes, such as the corrupt Cluster B Patrice's spaminator, mack-bot, mack-fund and her collaborator, anyx' cheetah and steemcleaners (seraph is his too, but I doubt that it is directly delegated by a preminer)
Let it be clear:
If the CEO (and owner?) of STINC, Ned Scott had no personal interest in the personal benefit of anyx and patrice, he would not have given them control over the voting power privilege, both for election of witnesses and for controling rewards, that they have.
By doing so, and by the sheer ability to delegate even more STEEM Power to them and to their ilk, ned has at least a seemingly indirect control over witnesses elections.
If you thought that the corrupt witnesses, whom collude with one another and with the preminers, most of which are high ranking witnesses themselves, have a say against STINC (I have more faith in STINC than in over 95% of the top 100 witnesses, but as things work, or more precisely, as things fail to work, with the recent Hard Fork 20 coming to mind), consider STINC's delegation ability and think again.
Ned controls his own account, as well as at least half a dozen more, such as misterdelegation, steem, steemit,steemit2 (ned likes blockbrothers: https://steemd.com/b/26351280#94d62d1d7d8e9a19c0c81191a818bb15372b202d,
ned likes oracle-d: https://steemd.com/b/26351321#c67932dd16ecee6d1e3e8b1f7381abdb3fc57bea)
, steem, steemit
steemit2
https://steemd.com/b/15152079#2f5d9f97921dce6e036b15927e9842a068e04826 (gandalf, guess which top witness it is, seems like a STINC insider of sorts)
blocktrades might have bought its stake, in one way or another
and alpha, blocktrade's rent for pay proxy
Another fact that I want to mention is how the top witnesses, including one whom is not a preminer, and whom refuses payment on some of his threads, shot their load of votes just prior to Hard Fork 20, as they knew what a flop the transition, and its immediate aftermath will be and refrained from wasting valuable voting power idle at 100% for days.
STEEM is governed by kakistocracy, in the exact same way that whatever country that you live in is.
ned, if by chance you happen to read this, ask your (and berniesanders' and smooth's) tripple agents, anyx and patrice why did they refrain from dealing with the following plagiarism and spam accounts:
lucky-robin,mojo4you, natur-pur all proxies of (awesome-gadgets/best-strategy/steem-network)
and ask patrice exclussively, since it was brought to me that anyx excluded himself (and steemcleaners) from dealing with spam, with berniesanders'/nextgencrypto's blatant spam
(or do you prefer this: https://steemit.com/@ngc/comments)
Same question about checkthisout/grumpycat (bloom/ifartrainbows/transisto) comment spam, and this: https://steemit.com/steemtrading/@checkthisout/steem-ta-for-next-weel-bull (you actually briefly delegated to grumpycat, or would you deny it?), and no, by comment spam I do not refer to his automated/copy-pasted comments that he left for his random and not so random victims,
and plagiarism via his zer0hedge/finprep/steemium accounts.
He did use a disclaimer in most (doubt that in all) his plagiarized threads from zerohedge.com, a FSB demoralization tool which at times publishes noteworthy information, as long as it is not against Russian or Chinese interests.
Remark:
in this case, as in most cases, I used the 'busy' tag solely for the sake of receiving the busy.pay vote.
First version:
2018-10-8, expect edition for the sake of correction if needed.
2018-10-9 , It seems that either now it is possible to delete upvoted threads, or that busy.pay silently removed its vote from this thread, a politic move of smooth's proxy, if this is the case.
However, I will keep my vote for busy.witness and advise all to vote for it, since it seems to me that one of HF20's changes is the ability to either delete even net upvoted threads, or to upvote on deleted content.
What is even more fascinating about it, is that the upvote appears on a blockchain explorer, but the un-vote does not appear on neither of the two relatively best STEEM blockchain explorers that I know about.