LOL this is rich... or tragic. You be the judge.

@whatsup dropped this in steamspeak discord earlier tonight and I just happened to be scrolling through there looking for a funny meme I had seen, when I noticed it.

So I know why he muted me, which is by and large the same reason aggroed can't stand me. It's because I expect them to be accountable for their shallow behaviors, and their tendency to take the glory for other people's ideas and efforts, not to mention ultimately in some way profiting from the same, while barely showing up on the chain themselves and expecting others to promote them all the time.

Word is rolling into me that Ned has basically muted anyone who ever challenged him, or held him accountable. That smells like fear, and I'm pretty sure it's warranted, as the place continues to lose it's best and brightest, while he ignores them.

In other words. People with substance and backbone scare people like them, because we expose what integrity looks like and they don't really have much of it, in either case. Nobody likes to say that outloud, because of whatever reason. Maybe because they are suckups, or hypnotized cult members, or they are afraid of the whale retaliation, or being shunned and on and on, all of which have manifested themselves around these alleged "leaders".

But ask yourselves, what have these people really done, but line their own pockets at other people's expense?

So, I suppose it makes sense he would mute me. But look at some of the other names.

Heimindanger is a person you may or may not like in person, but there is absolutely no arguing that dtube (his creation) is anything BUT a driving force in what is still keeping this place alive in the absence of innovation or functional updates from steemit inc, for example.

Bernie, who has a ton of money in the platform, may or may not be everybody's cup of tea, but hes got more stake than anybody else who will read this post, so you can damn well bet Ned should be making him happy if he wants his company to stay alive, not pissing him (and the rest of us) off by barely managing to manage his company which very much has this "decentralized" platform by the cajones.

kafkanarchy and nonamesleftouse? These two are both brilliant minds, future thinkers, and artists of their own right and of merit. Exactly the kinds of users that can make or break this place. I sort of considered myself in this category as well, and tried hard for 20 months to contribute, in ways most of you already know about as well.

So muting these users? Alienating these users? Just more rookie moves by an amateur with no prior experience, in way over his head.

I don't know the others at all, but the names above? We would have been and HAVE been some of steems biggest cheerleaders and contributors to the ecosystem. Shit, we did everything we could to help stop the user attrition and to build the communities that you were told to stay for after coming for the money.

But at least he ignored me first? I guess that means I made an impact. And that makes me chuckle through the tears and blood I've shed for this place.

I hear whaleshares.io, scorum and smoke are nice places to visit this time of year.

Maybe it's time for a little exploratory mission into some of these alternatives, I see a ton of the people who have left here since I've been here for the last year and half, are already there.

As sincerely as I've always been,
@SirCork