@pfunk Cenorsing Steemit.Chat To Minimize Criticism Of Steemit's Downtime

The steem blockchain came to a grinding halt in early morning hours today. So what was I to do? I know let's go hang out on Steemit.chat and wait around for updates and news. That's what I did and while doing it I also joked around with fellow users. We mused that this would be the end of Steemit, all tongue in cheek of course. Everything was fine for a few hours in the room while Steemit remained down. We scared a few new users to the room, coming in to check out what was wrong with the site. Telling them the world was ending with fantastical imaginative stories before letting them know there is a bug that it is being worked on and we just had to wait.

Then Hive account@pfunk decided to join the room coming late to the party. He didn't get the jokes he didnt' laugh and most of all he didn't like that others were laughing and having fun while he wasn't. Unable to comprehend the obvious satire he went into PR damage control mode like Steemit's future depended on him minimizing this downtime as nothing more than a packet being dropped.

This isn't a big deal he said. Just a bug, not a big deal at all.

All jokes aside now I feel he was wrong in that assessment and told him so. A production system coming to a complete halt for hours is always a big deal. The developers didn't get out of bed and rush into the office because the blockchain stopping isn't a big deal. If it wasn't a big deal they wouldn't have been rushing to fix it. They did rush into fix because it was a big fucking deal.

And for bringing up this very valid and serious point I was muted.

The reason stated was that I was trolling and it was just too much.

That is untrue and you know it Hive account@pfunk. You muted me because I brought up a very valid point and that ran counter to your goal of minimizing the issue. You censoring the subjective yet reasoned opinion that it was a big deal, was a disservice to the community and an abuse of your powers as a moderator.

I mocked your attempts to minimize and distract with these gifs

That isn't trolling, that is using satire to help make a point. A point that you disagreed with and decided to sweep under the rug. Hanging out with other users and laughing about imaginative stories about the IRS seizing steem to pass the time isn't trolling.

Disagreeing with you that a major system outage is a big deal isn't trolling.