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RE: Bursting the audience bubble, communication from stakeholders, and why you're probably wrong about the "Whale Experiment"
I think it's clearly beta, it's right there in the top right, but that's Steemit.com, I'm not sure how Steem the blockchain is categorized, but considering the upcoming hard fork 17 is set as version 0.17.0, that's in beta too.
I'm not sure I agree that large stakeholders need to work with Steemit Inc. on their own experiments, no more than you or I should do it. Again, probably the main point of the article, is that there seems to be support for greater responsibility from larger stakeholders. How this should be implemented though (and whether it should, consequences and side effects, etc.) is currently beyond me!
Of course, the community needs always to be involved. Steemit INC involvement is required because they create the code. We all need to work out how we want to run things, but that should be done in a controlled way ie through programs that are well communicated and open for discussions.
It's a good aspiration, but requiring it of users is pointless unless we have it worked into the system. It's pointless in a very real way - it's unenforceable, and so we have people pointlessly rallying against users for a perceived injustice where there is none.
@krnel was one of many criticizing the rule of immutable code as law, or the idea that once it's in the code we have to be happy with it. The reality is that's what we have at any given moment. Here's an excerpt:
The last part is very relevant. And my position would be recognize the failing (whatever it may be), change the code and at all time be realistic about what can be expected of free actors in a given system. Debate for change instead of saying "why don't you act in such and such way?". Btw, not accusing you of this, just making a general point.
I agree with what you are saying. Code is the result of what the community wants. Coding takes time and being able to run such experiment by code takes way more time to implement and way more effort to implement, than how it is run now. And I believe the whales did start this experiment based on the numerous posts and comments made regarding the in-balance in the power.