Fuzzy, thank you for taking the time to respond. You're very thoughtful, and I can understand your frustration.

Since we first started talking you've mentioned that you and @Ned used to communicate, but now you don't as much. You've shared that with me privately, and I'm guessing it's come up psuedo privately in whaleshares either by you or the leaders in there. You have some strong opinions on what the root cause of that rift was. So, that's a few months of sharing strong opinions that I'm willing to bet have gotten back to Ned. He appears to have let that slide this entire time up until this last post. When I listened to the post the one thing that struck me was when you aired some of your frustrations in a publicly recorded session.

You and Ned probably have different perceptions of what happened back when this place started. You probably have different perceptions of events now. I'm betting that the flag on chain is because you chose to start escalating publicly off chain, and Ned is responding to that.

I don't think flagging was the right approach because as you note it causes harm and a rift in the community. It harms not only you, but the several hundred people that voted, and the whole community because it takes away funds that would have been used to do something productive. That said, the post hasn't closed and there is still time to undo this and unwind this conflict for the betterment of everyone.

I also have concerns over your choice to publicly talk about private conversation between you and Ned. Beyond Bitcoin may not be the best place to cure your relationship with Ned or vent your frustration with him. My point here is that both of you have played a role in helping this place grow tremendously and both of you are currently playing a role in potentially causing it harm.

Both of you and your respective communities have taken a hit from this, but it's nothing that can't be undone. You can acknowledge that your actions and your communication with this community have had some influence in Ned's decision to flag, Ned can remove the flag, and then we'll work to get you two get back on track to building this platform collectively.

That's the path. The alternative is a rift in which the Steemit community and the Whaleshares and or Bitshares community parts ways, which harms everyone involved. We're all heading to the same moon gents. Please try to deescalte the actions, the language, and sense of victimhood so that we can repair, build, grow, and moon.

I have great respect for you both. We're all looking up to you. Please don't let us down.