@steemcommunity Has Pretty Much Everyone on Steemit On A BlackList

So I haven't posted for a while, and I really didn't have much intent to do so, but I was flipping through some of the Discord servers I'm on earlier today, and came across Hive account@tuck-fheman mentioning on the Hive account@spl server that SPL had been added to a blacklist "exclusion list" created by @paulag.

Hive account@steemcommunity is a Witness currently at full rank 101 and active rank 89 as you can see on https://steemian.info/witnesses - which is an invaluable tool (thanks Hive account@drakos! you're also on her list!) more generally than this completely preventable shit-show.

There are about 95k accounts on that list, which includes far more than just spammers, scammers, and vote rings. Go ahead. Type your account name into the search box. Chances are Hive account@paulag has you on her "paulag exclusion list". Like that's supposed to mean something.

Hive account@gtg, Hive account@jesta, Hive account@timcliff (who upvoted the post linked above - wtf?), Hive account@roelandp, and Hive account@good-karma are also on the "paulag exclusion list", and I only checked the top 5 Witnesses. Hive account@paulag herself is on her own exclusion list, as is her witness partner Hive account@abh12345. So are Hive account@berniesanders and Hive account@nextgencrypto. So are Hive account@dan and Hive account@ned. So are Hive account@acidyo, Hive account@sykochica, Hive account@jonny-clearwater, and every other name I entered into the search box.

I strongly encourage users of this platform to remove their votes from this Witness, as they are at best careless and irresponsible, and at worst self-important pricks masturbating to their own delusions of grandeur.