@cryptogee,

Hey Crypt.

First of all, "bunkum" ... good word. You Brits really do enrich the language. ;-)

When I read through all the rage-filled diatribes, I find myself in a state of disbelief. Yes, I agree, no one has handled any of this particularly well. But, come on, Justin Sun is not Lex Luthor and writing code doesn't make you Superman. Put things in perspective people.

If it were not for the Coronavirus, I would cite this as the largest case of mass hysteria I've ever witnessed.

I agree with you completely on the 50/50 author/curator split. The higher-ups finally caved into the pressure about bidbots and so had to replace one gravy train with another. No one is more supportive of professional curators than I but authoring is about creating quality while curation is about consuming quantity. If it takes me 5 hours to create a post and it takes you 5 minutes to read it, you can curate 100 times faster than I can create. Surely that justifies the traditional 75/25 split. But the Whales and Witnesses have always got to rig it so that they are getting something for nothing. Take a look at my feed ... I stopped posting after HardFork 21 for exactly this reason.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Keep talking reason Ol' Boy. Slowly, it'll rattle a few cages.

Quill