Thanks cryptohunter for the considered reply. I understand your analogy, but I have to ask--and I'm trying not to come off as completely dense--who are the initial people locked out of the cake room and what was their initial stake in Dash? Are these miners you're talking about?
The other question I have is, does all this matter to people who buy dash now? The devs can no longer victimize people, am I right?
The miners who were promised a fair share if they came to the party were the ones locked out. (As I said that analogy was not a perfect one for dash. Just to give you some idea)
Their stake was the same as at any party they attend. We are comparing one party with another party only. We must always compare the same thing.
At every party they attended before and after there was no lock door between them and the cake at other parties. Where they were promised a fair share of cake they got a fair(er) share of cake. You can't expect them to say this was a great party compared to the other parties they attended.
I think the masternodes iare yet but another way of getting unfair advantage once you are already ahead. Either way I would prefer to stay away from that project now. You have probably read all the threads and done your research. So if you like it now then stick with it. Everyone must make their own choices I guess.
Never get attached to any one project. I have found only disappointment lies down that path. Eventually something always happens and you realise you simply became too fixated. I'm not saying dash is the worst. I think probably there are more sneaky tricks happening all the time but you just can't observe it.