RE: The time has come --- you won't believe what's at the end!
The “threat” of any witness applying any fork is always there. As a witness, I can choose to support or not support any changes I want. (Whether I will stay voted in is another matter, but unrelated to what we are talking about now.)
I am not going to make a blanket statement that restrains me from ever considering changes such as this in the future. I am not a witness who will never fork out someone’s stake. If there are extreme circumstances, I might consider it as an absolute last resort.
I have never indicated that the current situation is even close enough to an “extreme last resort” situation that I would ever do such a thing. In fact, I have indicated the exact opposite.
There is nothing in my post saying that there will be any type of consequences if the power down doesn’t stop. I am not making any type of threat that there will be consequences. There is no extortion or blackmail there.
What I have done is stated that if Steemit is willing to “give up” something on their side (powering down), I am willing to “give up” something on mine (my freedom as a witness to move forward with any type of hardfork on the main chain that I deem appropriate).
Again, I want to stress that even if they don’t give up something on their side, and I reserve my freedom to choose what changes to support - that does not imply that I will use that freedom to make any particular choice.
Certainly you have been careful to leave multiple interpretations open and multiple paths of action.
Everything is there to interpret. You disagree with my interpretation but by giving so much scope you beg the question. I'm simply assuming the most likely cases.
That you confirm that you will not disavow blocking them out is enough to set the record straight.
You are free to interpret however you want, and post whatever you want, but just pointing out - this is inaccurate and untrue:
However I think at this point those leaders who have shown favor to the idea of modifying @ned or @steemit 's control of what their keys can do
I am not in favor, nor have I ever been, nor have I ever expressed that I am.