haha! okay, amber, i'll follow your logic here. if mason had any interest in DILUTING he would have done the split without asking, AND it would have been 1:500 or more, not a modest 1:10.
can you explain why mason didn't wait for the OS to reach 499M (just beneath the 500M AS) before he proposed the split?
i have my own theories on this, but i would enjoy hearing yours.