I just unvoted all of my witness votes as I have been contemplating for the past few days after reading a post from @whatsup, one of the smartest Steemians around - always calling for action and never unreasonable.
This ‘social’ blockchain is an interesting place as some of the witnesses became personal friends, others had proven their worth through their actions and transparency, others just... are mythical beings being rumoured to be good for the platform but I personally have no way of evaluating it for myself. Unvoting is hard in any way because it’s not anonymous, and people react to an ‘unvote’ in different ways: one asked me if my account was hacked, another said thank you for all the time I did vote for their witness (!), another clearly wasn’t happy with me and took it personally, seeing their reaction, and again another asked me if they had done something wrong so they could have this feedback.
Part of the reason for the Steem break I announced a few days ago is my feeling of restlessness. I love Steem and I want it to succeed. I’m excited about the economical and development possibilities and the ‘turn key blockchain’ we could have and share with the world - to paraphrase @exyle.
But how much I want to help improve this place and add my value to it and sometimes lose myself in all kinds of discussions... I am a content maker first and foremost. I NEED to create content. It’s in my blood. And although that means I would create content for free as well (I’ve done free content writing at least ten years before Steem), I do care about how crypto is able to empower creators - as it’s the first place I know of that actually values creativity above anything else.
As someone not feeling ‘at home’ in the Fiat system I am emotionally invested in STEEM since it’s the first ‘money’ that actually seemed to come my way for being ME.
And now I’m seeing big changes coming up that I first thought I wanted to support and become less sure about every day.
Anyway. I’m taking the next week to travel deeper into the gorgeous country that’s called Slovakia, after which I’ll get back to reading all the opinions and make up my mind. I do want to urge everyone in the meantime to think, reflect, be reasonable in your opinions and vote for witnesses wisely, as big changes seem to be coming up and they will severely influence the way you’ll experience Steem.
Not even one witness unvote was personal. It might sound counter intuitive, but creating a clean slate for myself is my way of showing how much I care.
Behave, and the first person who is able to show me how the EID will affect every ‘class’ of Steemian (Plankton to Whale, curator to content maker to passive investor) will be... well, I have nothing to give, except for an 11 cent upvote and a resteem.
Signing off from a couch in Košiçe. This taking a break from Steem is harder than I thought.
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