Tomorrow I'll hit 5 years since I joined steem.

And during all this time I did my best to avoid any conflict in all forked blockchains from steem. And of course you all know the reason. But there is another type of abuse. I would consider it a hidden one. And that's the abuse of power. The abuse of blackmailing I would say.

Even the word blackmail contain that meaning, I see it as ''I'll blacklist you, if you will not mail [satisfy]me.'' lol

And of course usually people don't talk about that. Maybe because they don't want to be in any negative list of others.

So, how you can notice that usually ? :

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Some people even give criteria of who will they support, and that's normal I would say. His/her power, his/her choice. But still, no matter what's the good thing you'll do for the blockchain, if some big guys decide to blacklist you, you'll never get the support after. You'll be just muted by all of them, and they will never notice what you wrote. And how good you are. I don't mean the blacklist in the platform, but a black list from getting rewards. Don't confuse that please !

So, let's suppose that we have two powers. One big power protecting people from abuse, and another big power welcoming that and considering that freedom of speech. So, in case a little guy like me support one side, he'll get rewarded for that no matter what he does. And staying neutral in this way is almost impossible. Unless you avoid all those topics.

Just like vax_antivax, anti-russian_pro-russian, right_left... etc.The goal is to divide people. But that's in the real life.

I don't think that the goal of the blockchain is to divide us. It should be all for uniting people and making their connection stronger, just like in the recent video of @blurtcast. I talked about that.

Of course, I know that there are many good whales who support people based on the value they bring to the blockchain. But I'm sure that there are some who will blacklist you just because of an opinion you said, or wrote.

The issue :

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So, the problem here is not getting the rewards or not. That's why I never liked when the proof of stake was implemented in most crypto. I always liked the concept of proofofbrain and other types of concepts. But proof of stake is good mostly for investors.

The issue again, is in formatting the mind of people. So, most of those who run after the rewards will do their best to satisfy one whale or another. I wouldn't like to be that type. I prefer to say what I think and let the community reward me based on my honesty.

I wanted to write this a long time ago, but I didn't find that power to do. Today I'm finding that.

I think it's my duty to write what I think. That will be better for our unity as people.

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I wouldn't like to see people placing rewards at the first place.

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There are morals and principles after all.

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Especially I don't want those with power to tell me what to do, or what to say.

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It could be in a hidden manner for not rewarding me, but still that's not the thing to build relations on.

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