I wrote this post on blurt.blog as I was genuinely curious as to why blurtlatam suddenly disappeared. I wouldn't have thought too much of it but what happened then just made me wonder more and more.
Not only was the post ignored by ALL the people who could have put my mind at rest but it seemed to be pretty much invisible.
This is not a begging bowl for votes I just know it should have had more interest than it did. Unless no-one actually gives a shit about the most popular frontend suddenly being pulled and why.
So thought I'd try another little experiment and repost it on the new frontend which seems to work a treat #blurtlatam.intinte.org (Thankyou fervi)
So humour me, I just want to see what happens.
This was what the original post looked like. It had lots of updates too which the few people who did see it when on the NEW page might not have seen.
Originally posted here: https://blurt.blog/informationwar/@northern-tracey/blurtlatam-down
Blurtlatam Down and Other Weirdness
northern-tracey in informationwar • 8 days ago (edited)
Where has Blurtlatam gone?
It's been down for over 12 hours now.
Conspiracies are budding as to why, how this could happen.
Theory no.1 Opidia's post about witnesses on trending page unwelcome?
Theory no.2 Blurtlatam is up to witness no.2 in the charts seen as a threat?
Can someone please let us know what's going on or our brains will come to their own conclusions and the FUD will kickstart.
I begrudge having to post on blurt.blog too.
https://blurt.blog/blurtnews/@lucylin/i-won-t-be-posting-on-blurtblog-blurlatam-com-is-down-and-this-raises-a-question
If any devs out there know what's happened please let us know. Thankyou
UPDATE: More weird shit now.
https://blurt.blog/blurt/@sagarkothari88/i-am-crying-it-is-okay-to-take-back-support-but-please-explain-why
Now why are suddenly all the other witnesses 'unvoting' for this new dev who seems to be pretty genuine.
and
Opidia 'apologizing' to a bunch of people effectively switching camp.
https://blurt.blog/truth/@opidia/happy-death-apology
Things just got even weirder................................
ANOTHER UPDATE: 01/11/22
I just went to check where Blurtlatam is now on the witness chart and he's gone from no.2 to no.10 in one day. I also saw that my witness vote was no longer showing up. Are witness votes time sensitive, do they have to be repeated?
Try as I may my vote does not go through. It says account was active too so why is blurtlatam STILL down and why is no-one talking about this?
Megadrive posted this 'update' on sagarkothari88's post (linked above). I find it very odd how everyone is ignoring this post and even upvotes on my previous post from people who never upvote me. Meanwhile this post is being ignored completely. I just want to know what's going on.
So it was 'negativity' that killed Blurtlatam? Really? Do I include my own posts in that statement coz they did go to trending every time on Blurtlatam. On blurt.blog I may as well be invisible.
UPDATE: 3/11/22
Have just been alerted to someone who seems to be able to post on blurtlatam. This was posted 4 hours ago from blurtlatam. This story is still getting weirder
https://blurt.intinte.org/blurtlatam/@yakubenko/walking-the-dog-lady-beautiful-evening-sky
Last night freakeao put out statement about this whole outtage. Seems megadrive was right when he said the thing about 'hate speech' being the reason. Something still not sitting right with me tho.... and still no-one answers any of MY questions here.
small segment -
https://blurt.blog/blurt/@freakeao/blurtlatam-frontend-esp-eng
curiouser and curiouser I went to the search button and found others posting on blurtlatam.
So is it down or isn't it?
OR (and this is gonna sound paranoid I know) is this some kind of club and I'm not in it?
Answers on a postcard please......................
PS I have withdrawn my witness votes for blurtlatam and freakeao because of this.
I may be wrong but in my opinion this is the real reason
I withdrew my blurtlatam witness vote because I wanted to bring @double-u into the top 20.
After I withdrew my vote, blurtlatam was still in 10th position, so in my opinion nothing happened because all witnesses in top 20 earn the same amount of money
15 minutes after withdrawing my vote blurtlatam stopped working
UPVU is outside blurt and complicated for many ..
@ctime would you recieve delegation and you could give back 20% APR ( vote or liquidity ) you could also open a witness account
And we could all attach our blurt on you , better that way than you giving away votes ( you could then give a % of vote or liquidity only to the ones who delegate )
At 20% APR that would attract many investors and users and easy delegation within blurt wallet .
This would be a temporary solution. I still believe that it is possible to develop a solution that will allow to balance the financial inequality resulting from the delegation to bots.
I am not interested in running such a bot. I am not a programmer.
If you know programmers who would create such a bot then you could run it yourself.
dear, if you want to vote my pictures, like them with a higher percentage, if not, then I don't need a small votes from you.. thanks
Blurtlatam was in 2nd position when I looked? It had gone down to 10th after it disappeared. So a number of people must have removed their vote before you did. Your reason is clear but I wonder why the others did.
As I explained MY vote was removed without my consent or knowing. On trying to revote it wouldn't go through.
I don't think you are to blame for this myself.
Well, if it is the reason... You have every right to revoke your vote... And he has every right to do what he wants with blurtlatam.com... That's life.
Not that it makes any real difference- but I've just unwitnessed freakeo and blurlatam....
If the reason for pulling the front end was 'muh hate speech', then they do not represent me in any way whatsoever.
It's kinda ironic that people suffering from the tyranny of socialism would be against free speech - there is no 'hate speech', just free speech - as that's kind of ethos, is what allows the parasitical commies to stay in power !
The mind boggles.
Lololol. Way to twist it. Was it 'pulled' for that reason, or did it suffer from a buggy cloudfire service? Does it matter that he refused to continue because, among other reasons, you and this poster here were spreading FUD? Last I read you were lecturing him about 'stopping "the" fud' by catering to your queries. Much like the retard above, you think you're entitled to spread FUD in the absence of understanding. The retard above thinks people owe her clarification, the retard who's spreading FUD by this post that somehow she's censored, in the same way, you cry censorship.
The other idiotic notion, is that you think Venezuela is suffering from socialism, not from embargo and criminal sanctions, not economic warfare.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/09/un-rights-chief-decries-latest-us-sanctions-venezuela-michelle-bachelet
The last point, is that you, like the retard above, don't give a fuck to extend appreciation, though I'm sure you feel entitled much like you felt entitled to hundred dollar's worth of payouts on steem. Reminds me of another entitled moron that felt entitled to $700 posts, but not the downvotes.
yup my mind was totally boggled also by the sheer lack of scrutiny.
So far I see this post is also being largely ignored so looks like no-one does care.
We'll see.
Asking these questios is hate speech...be nice and it will all be fine!
ask no questions and I'll tell you no lies huh........