Well, I'm going to try to keep this as short as I can as I can't be bothered with much more of this drama (which to be fair, I started).

You talk about SP and how your voice is heard regardless of your stake or status (minnow/dolphin/whale etc). But you are both supported and heard because you have worked to get yourself in a position where you are moderating in witness chat, or state of steem or whatever gathering of 'the great and the good' it may be. You also have worked hard building community and in curie (I also did both of these things on discord a lot more in the year between autumn 2017 & autumn 2018). I know that what people do to build (or bring worth) to the steem blockchain can bring them support and success. You have found allies and those allies support you, this is how steem works to an extent. Unless you've got a big bag of steem, then the rules are yours to make up.

But here you are responding to my comment upset that I didn’t come and acknowledge your post. Mentioning your account size as the reason.

I've already apologized for stating that you ignored my post as I really did think I had included tagging you in the final edit, as I explained in my last comment. My main issue was to do with the fact that out of the people I did tag it seems like only 3 or 4 of them read it. Gtg, lukestokes, pennsif and nathanmars. These people voted it anyway which I assume means they read it, and I appreciate them taking the time. But the other 40 didn't read it, or more probably even glance at the notification if they had one. But lets move this away from you, or me for that matter.

Dan has a following not only due to his stake, but what he does with it (and was doing before it). He hustles, he supports others, he’s positive and always working to try to rally this platform.

You don't need to tell me any of this. I have a lot of respect for Dan and as I've already said previously I have thanked him in a comment on this post. And I have also made meaningful comments on many other posts of his after listening to his opinions and ideas. I drop the screens below because it seems to me like you might have been reading Machiavelli and are trying some type of political maneuver to tar me with a brush I do not deserve. I've stated in many comments that Dan impresses me over and over again for one simple fact. He is the only whale I've seen on steem (there may be others I haven't noticed) who manually curates not based on community affiliation, or who wrote the post, or what work someone has been doing for them on discord, but on the quality of the post. Both on twitter and on steem he has weekly 'drop a post' sections where he rewards good content for no other reason than he seems to be a fair minded guy and has the vision to see that our platform will only grow and flourish with this type of involvement from the high stake holders. The post on steem is all about rewarding the best post you've seen (generally understood it is another persons post) and the one on twitter is an opportunity to drop your own work. Again, please do not try to tar me with the brush that I'm in some way not a fan of his. In my comment to you, however abrupt I simply stated a fact. That I had written a promotional post yesterday morning and made a tweet on Brian Armstrong's tweet and then alerted everyone who hustles on twitter to both my post and the tweet. One thing I am not is an ass kisser but the two comments below are genuine from the heart:

I have made many more similar comments to Dan both on steem and twitter but I'm not going to say any more about that. I hope you read the screens, I'm pretty sure Dan will have read those comments and that is my opinion of him. The guy is a legend, credit where credit is due! Which brings me on to my next point.

Wanna work on marketing but feel you aren’t getting noticed? Then get a group going and rally for support. Complaining that it’s all not fair is not going to get the response you want.. be the change you want to see.

Have you been on twitter? Do you care about the marketing that has been going on there? Are you aware of who is involved in that marketing? No. Why would you. Do not lecture me about putting in work when you haven't even bothered to check what I (and over 50 other people active daily) are doing to better this platform from a marketing perspective. It beggars belief that you have the nerve to take this tone as this whole comment thread has started because of one thing I said:

I'm glad that I could be part of making you and many other steeminas aware of this tweet blast @llfarms and helped to get everyone informed about the chance to promote steem for listing on coinbase ASAP. The reason why you know about this is not because of Dan's post but because I made a post at 6am this morning that Dan saw and recreated to point the community towards the marketing drive that I'd already started.

That might be a bit confrontational, but it is still true. I made that post as part of my daily work that I do to promote steem. Btw I didn't know about the community foundation as I miss out on so many things on discord as I am working hard elsewhere.

You tell me above in a very condescending way what I need to be doing llfarms. I have seen you trying to shoot other people down in other comments threads like this and you seem to labor under some type of delusion that you are giving your child a telling off. Your arguments are strangely tangled up in that at one point you are telling me to do something that I have been trying to do by raising this issue in conversation.

But you get to choose to complain on someone else’s post (who was only trying to get the word out about Steem) or you can actually do something different and make a change.

How is me making a post that pointed the first wave of tweeters to Brian Armstrong's tweet not me trying to make a change? Further to this, as I've already stated in previous comments in this thread, I am glad Dan made this post. Further to this again, I've actually advised everyone who visited my post to come here and be part of Dans post as well. So, I am completely prepared to point people to another persons post who is promoting this marketing activity and in fact it didn't even register as a choice it was just the right thing to do. I'm not sure why my repeated decent behavior in the way I conduct myself on steem singles me out as abnormal? If you want to try and label me a moaner, or a complainer that is fine (wrong but that is your prerogative) but if you look at all the things I've said here and go and check them out you will see that I've behaved with integrity and have done everything I can to not only promote my message about the tweet blast, but other peoples as well.

There are plenty of issues with Steem, “it’s all not fair” is not one of them in my opinion. You are in control of what you do here, no one else. And we all have a equal chance here.

I've seen you say this over and over again on other comment threads, in chat rooms, I think you might have said something similar in the witness chat I attended. If this is the excuse you need to tell yourself to get by, that is fine but I prefer to live in the real world. What is fair about the biggest drain on the rewards pool coming from bidbots, whale circle jerks and other forms of stake gaming. If you were to say to me, "it is what it is. Not fair, but that is just reality, deal with it." Then I would laugh and agree but your statement

You are in control of what you do here, no one else. And we all have a equal chance here.

I get that this may have been your experience of steem but that does not mean it has been everyone's. It is only half true in any case, 'you are in control of what you do here' absolutely right. 'And we all have a equal chance here' complete hogwash. If you speak out against certain things or people on steem you can have your account destroyed in a matter of weeks. Regardless of the fact that those things are detrimental to everyone's stake. Is that an equal chance? What exactly is equal about tyranny by consensus?

If you are autistic and are incapable of functioning in a normal manner in regards to social interaction will you have an equal chance here? Nope. There was an autistic musician on steem about 13 months ago who was very talented. He lasted 10 weeks if memory serves. He only lasted that long because of curie. I remember trying to help him via email teaching him about discord but he was completely incapable of that level of social intelligence. Anyway, extreme example but the idea that everyone has an equal chance on steem is simply wrong.

Anyway, it's been a lively exchange. I hope someone made some steem from the dramacoin that has been flying about ;-)