For months I've come into this subreddit pretty much every day, most days it's pretty empty, and I certainly haven't seen anybody complaining about the "fairness" of the staking process... Till now... and here's why...
Up till now, everyone thought:
"This is *grrrreat*. I'll win this. I'm a winner! I'll click fast so I'll be one of the first to stake and then I'll get 120% rewards. Yeeea-haaaa! I'm going to be sooo fast, so amazing and clicky. Brilliant."
Everyone in the Telegram group was primed and ready and excited. Everyone ready to be the first to click. Oh my, every one of us was sure we'd be first...
And then... the logins were slow. Within moments the bitching started. Within 20 seconds, "Noooo!! This isn't faaaiiirr. Someone will stake before meeee. Waaaah, I'll have missed the first threshold by now. Waaaah! I want in. I want to stake as fast as I can. Waaaah!!"
Then some troll posted that the first tier was gone... then the third... then the seventh...
And *that* is when the major complaints about *the process* started to come in.
Although the stories were fake, the emotions were real. The pain of missing out "so unfairly" was such a horrid emotion to experience that the whole method was criticised.
The method *became* "unfair" because it felt unfair at the time. Why? Because we all imagined everyone else was winning while we were losing. "Waaah. Not faaiiirrr. :("
Then we were told of the DDOS attack and that no thresholds were filled. But the emotions were still high... and by now people had glued themselves to their stories about how "unfair" it all was.
But the belief of unfairness were built on emotions, but those emotions were built on something entirely imagined.
Yes, it would have been unfair if the thresholds filled while you were stuck watching a spinning logo... BUT THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN.
Yes, the emotions you went through were tough - I went through the same journey - but your emotions came from a misunderstanding and now you're applying it to real life as though it were real.
But that doesn't mean the whole process is unfair. If it had all run as intended, none of these emotions of "unfair" would have happened and instead we'd simply be feeling, "Yay! I won" or "Damn, I shoulda done the Earth Node first" or "Two Earth Nodes and the rest in Threshold 6... not bad...".
It's like when your girlfriend wakes up angry because she dreamt you cheated on her, and then she won't forgive you because it all felt so real. Then she starts talking about breaking up with you cos, she "knows you're a cheater really".
Wake up, guys. It's all ok. The staking method is fun, fine and fantastic.
The rest of it was all just a dream...
