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General Discussion / Re: poll for the "1 BTS for transfer" proposal
« on: February 01, 2016, 05:06:27 am »the current BTS referral program are not welcomed in China.
How the f*ck would you know? Or.... the referral program is not welcomed by YOU?
Get real. Go out, hit the streets, take an honest poll of the Chinese people en masse. Ask them if they would like to receive $50 for every lifetime member that they sign up. Go to a college campus and have some kids go out and canvas with you.
Get out there in the real world and see how many people you can talk to about Bitshares, get them excited, start a Meetup group, show them the mobile wallet, send them 100 BTS, get them signed up on ccedk.com or OL, shake some hands, encourage others to do the same.
Your hubris far outweighs my ability to describe it.
frankly speaking, what described above is something I really worry.
I am not saying that the current Bitshares referral program is pyramid scheme, but under some condition it may become something which is not very far from that.
set transfer fee to a level several times the reasonable level.
then "force" users to prepay and motivate them to refer others to prepay.
"create pain which does not exist before and force users to prepay to lessen the pain" - what I want to say is that this model is not welcomed in China BTS community.
I am not against referral program generally, but I don't think the current Bitshares referral program is healthy enough, some improvement is necessary. we need a model like "make users feel comfortable for the fundamental service and attract them to pay more for advanced features".
in China a lot pyramid scheme/ponzi trap occured in recent years, for example:
VPAL - a ponzi trap which has some link to ripple.
MMM - come from Russia and catched a lot of followers in China and India, make a lot of people lost money.
just today, it is announced that the "ezubao" is a ponzi trap.
so we need to keep a distance away from this kind of things. and should be careful to invite potential users to prepay.
this conclusion are based on China context, and it is why China community has a strong request for a "make users feel comfortable for the fundamental service and attract them to pay more for advanced features" model.