My lack of understanding on a current hot topic mixed with my passion to ensure the future survival of our STEEM network ended up getting the wires all crossed in my brain unit..

I'm embarrassed to admit that I lashed out against @dantheman in previous posts...

Frankly he didn't deserve the brunt of the fury and asshattery unleashed on him nor is it my place to question him taking payouts from the reward pool. For all I know he could be using those funds to build us our own island one day. At the end of the day I'd be a hypocrite if I expected him to post without pay. Regardless of if you're extremely well off financially or broke it's your basic human right as a STEEM user to choose any payout schema.

I was completely out of line making that post insinuating you had enough money and shouldn't feel the need to dip into the reward pool. It would be not only discriminatory but downright asinine to expect the man who dug the well to not drink from it.

That is essentially what I did looking back and I never meant to oppress your rights.
I do NOT stand for oppression of anyone, regardless of my previous actions.

To top off the icing on my asshat cake... Not only was I going off on a tangent about a completely different system than what Dan had actually proposed but I'd also forgotten the fact that we are all on the same team. I've no valid excuse for my actions.

I acted reactively and without complete understanding.. Please forgive me @dantheman not only for wrongly demonizing you but also for not taking my concerns up with you in a more civilized matter before blowing up things to points where they simply didn't need to go.

I lost some face today, embarrassed myself thoroughly and also learned I need to be far more patient and understanding with matters I don't understand fully before I go into beast mode.

Sorry to @dantheman / STEEM and anyone else who was affected by my misguided rantings.

I'm still very much growing into the role of STEEM Sheriff I created for myself. Give me time.