What, you thought I was done?! Oh no! This HIVE fiasco is so full of blunders that I could not possibly list them all in one post. And if you think this is about HIVE-bashing, you'd be mistaken. I'm listing all of these points so that I, and maybe others, can have a historical reference point to considered should another Hardfork of the Steem blockchain into another chain come to the surface. Which hopefully it won't, because this is not a normal blockchain where you are simply creating another open-ledger to manage funds. The Steem blockchain is unique in that it holds intellectual property in the form of text, and other digital assets like collectibles that should not be copied. But that's for another post.
The other day, I wrote the following words in HIVE Hubris: Join Us Whether You Like It or Not:
The HIVE lackeys will simply say, "Hey, if you don't want your votes active on the HIVE blockchain, just go login and deactivate them." In other words, whether you agree with what is happening or not, we'll compel you to get involved, otherwise, we'll just exploit everything that you have created on the Steem blockchain.
Did you have a say in your Witness Votes for HIVE? No! Did you have a say in your identity being copied? No! Did you have a say in freezing accounts? No! Did you have a say in your intellectual property being copied? No! Did you have a say in the copying of your upvotes? No! Did you have say in your digital collectibles being copied? No! Did you have a say in whether your delegations should remain? No!
So if you have delegated Steem Power to someone you no longer support, that account still has HIVE Power - thanks to you - and will forever remain with that person, unless, of course, you join the Movement... whether you like it or not!