Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts on this.

Contrary to how it might appear to some, in general I like double-u. I felt in many ways he was good for Blurt, and that his initial investment (before I came here) was likely a necessary component to the initial survival of the chain. As you mention, there must be a means of paying for both infrastructure and work.

Where he veered off course (in my opinion) was his war over the VTS became personal and seemed to blind him to realities. I opposed him on his VTS stance, and then once again as he doubled down and tried to expand that position to include all delegations. However, I never mistook our disagreement over this topic to be a personal matter, it was simply a philosophical difference when it came to property rights.

I felt it was a tragedy that he took it personally with megadrive, and for weeks publicly talked out of turn in his large pub. Stirring up the crowd if you would to ensure that it evolved from a difference of philosophy to a personal enmity.

I watched as the crowd grew under his sway on this. I suspect some like my friend michelangelo3 were to close to the forest to see the trees and perhaps didn't realize how charged this was becoming. Others I believe were swayed by the large votes they were receiving for mirroring the views being expressed despite their growing toxicity as they evolved from a philosophical difference to a character attack.

I have tried when possible to seek to direct folks to a common ground if one exists, or to try explaining when there is no such ground why in a manner that doesn't attack the messenger, just the message.

I believe that in this most recent post by double-u it was done in the spirit of continuing that war with megadrive. He appears blinded in his disgust and anger with him to the point he has stopped seeing larger pictures.

I believe his message would have been more respectable had he not made it so personal. Much more as well if he would have had some type of plan on how exactly a chain would continue to run with no one at the helm. Personally I don't see how it could be done, and we have no other example I'm aware of that demonstrates such a thing. Ignoring this likely crucial failure point was a flaw that made it glaring to myself this was a tunnel vision post of his to seek his due in how he (in his eye) was wronged.

It made and still makes me sad how the entire thing ended. I lost someone dear to me (michelangelo3) and feel like the loss of quality contributors from those who left created a vacuum that will never be filled the same. Double-u did many good things for Blurt, and I rue the day he allowed losing his push against property rights to create an anger so strong he made that a hill to die upon. It was all so unnecessary. And still is. Blurt was and is so much more than megadrive and that one issue and I wish that the many parts of Blurt that aren't that could have held more of a cumulative value than the VTS/megadrive war became to him.