RE: And @charlieshrem is a top witness out of nowhere
Ask yourself: why do they want him as "Ambassador" and witness? He's popular. He will bring more people to Steemit. That's why. Anything wrong with that? Life is a struggle in many ways. When someone unpopular goes up against someone who is popular, the popular person has more supporters and will usually win. The cult of personality effect is strong. That's how many people do things. Popularity attracts people. His popularity will attract people to Steemit. Steemit Inc. wants popular people to help make Steemit popular. It's part of marketing Steemit and making it more successful. Does it make more sense to you now?
As for "don't vote for witnesses". Why don't you tell people not to vote for any posts as well? The witness list works the same way as posts. It works with SP. Upvotes for posts works with SP. Telling people not to vote is a bit short sighted.
Peace.
He can be 'ambassador' without being a witness its totally different
Problem is that Steemit Inc. can arrange witness list how they want with single click and push forks, updates community do not support.
Read this:
https://steemit.com/witness-category/@someguy123/seriously-what-is-a-witness-why-should-i-care-how-do-i-become-one-answer
https://steemit.com/steem/@transparency/don-t-vote-for-witnesses-your-vote-does-not-matter
Yup, I have already read those. Thanks for the suggestion. I don't dispute people who have high SP can skew things in their favor. It works for witnesses and upvote payouts. As I mentioned, they have their reason why they are upvoting Shrem, because it's in their interest to do so for Steemit. I don't have to like it either ;)