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Title: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: fuzzy on October 30, 2014, 11:31:27 am
Some on these forums "believe" it would be more transparent and "honest" to have a single person being funded by each delegate. 

This is absolutely terrible if you want to minimize collusion among delegates and large shareholders.  Let's give a simple example of why this is a bad idea. 

Let's say "someone" (let's call him Rune) shows up one day making thousands of posts an hour about how our community has been gifted with the most incredible technology of all time.  Let's now say he has a lot of support by a forum veteran who somehow states that he doesn't know him (even though Rune says he brought him here). 

Now lets just say for a moment that this hypothetical guy goes into the Mumble server and tells the Community Event Organizer (CEO)(Not Community Manager) that he is going to be the "Most Powerful Person in Bitshares".  Let's also say that he tells the CEO that he needs to quit his day job and work full time, run a delegate and get it into power.  Then let's say he asks this CEO to speak privately with him after a Mumble Hangout...where he tells the "CEO" of his plans to advocate complete transparency of funds for everyone's accounts under the pretext of honesty and transparency (so he can identify the largest account holders).  Now let's imagine this person saying "I know you aren't going to like this fuzz, but we need to get a group of people in charge of the largest BitShares accounts and form a power block" with them.  We will all have to have secret meetings....

Secret...meetings....  but I digress...

Then Let's imagine this happens.  This "hypothetical guy", who "hypothetically" says he was "brought here" by Methodx, tells me to quit my job, makes a post on the forums saying I need to be the Community Manager, making 10-15k PER MONTH.  Let's say hypothetically, my conscience is overruled by PURE GREED, and his efforts gain my support.  I fight the battle I fought in my heart and mind over the past week and make the WRONG decision to really join forces and dance with the devil (a battle rarely won).  I support his plan to have one person per delegate...and that is just the beginning.

Well now we start having our "secret meetings" and I serve as the public face to this secret group...helping them ascertain which delegates are the ones they want in power--without them ever having to publically say a word.  They use greed to control delegates and when one of them decides to go against the will of this "secret group", they are voted out of power.  If they try to come onto the Mumble Server, they find that the CEO followed Rune's advice and made it so ALL QUESTIONS MUST GO THROUGH HIM--as opposed to the currently structured Open Forum--and that person's questions/concerns fall on def ears (remember, I am now "hypothetically" on the side of my secret group of friends).  So that person tries to post things to the forums to inform others of potential collusion...but the "Community Manager" and other insiders attack them.  Or worse....the community Manager deletes all posts and bans him, citing a false narrative. 

ALWAYS remember----It is FAR easier to control that one-person-owned-delegate because there are no witnesses...and the secret power block has one of the most trusted members of the community (the "CEO") in their pocket.

However, if each delegate has multiple participants, it is FAR more difficult to get all of them to secretly collude.  It is also FAR more difficult a task for the "Community Manager" to control them. In case the quotation marks around every instance of the word "hypothetical" failed to denote my sarcasm...This was NOT a hypothetical situation--it actually happened.   

I have said it once in this thread:  https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=10344.msg141609#msg141609 

I am sorry Ghensto.  I let you down.  I am not an infiltrator...I am a person with an honest heart who is terrified at what humanity is capable of when "profit" is on the line.  I have attempted to do as you said, even sent emails to both of these hypothetical figures telling them they could be on the Beyond Bitcoin Delegate slate so I could gain more money--to use as a tool to fight these people...but I can't do it.  I have to do what is in my heart...and that is what I have always done, be it popular or unpopular. 

Let the f'ing "politics" begin.   :(

Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: gamey on October 30, 2014, 11:59:03 am


LOL.  I have little to add, but I just want to make the point that I called out Rune's intentions before I had any knowledge of what Fuz is talking about by his posts on this site alone.

I doubt Methodx has anything to do with Rune, but it is possible. 

Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: fuzzy on October 30, 2014, 12:01:56 pm
He advocates for him, so I await Method's explanation--but I am not going to say I trust him anymore.
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: gamey on October 30, 2014, 12:10:16 pm

People passionate about btsx are going to like other people passionate about btsx.  Rune put out a lot of positive talk.  Lots of people, especially young people, or technical people have little experience with these types will just take it at face value.  Methodx has put a lot of effort to come up with ideas and put little effort trying to befriend everyone.  Not trusting him is fine, but I would not just throw his name out there.  Methodx never claimed he knew Rune or vouched for him, he just said he liked the guy. (or something like that)  Lots of people like Rune, it is just that Rune didn't name drop them... so it isn't fair to methodx. 
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: fuzzy on October 30, 2014, 12:19:48 pm

People passionate about btsx are going to like other people passionate about btsx.  Rune put out a lot of positive talk.  Lots of people, especially young people, or technical people have little experience with these types will just take it at face value.  Methodx has put a lot of effort to come up with ideas and put little effort trying to befriend everyone.  Not trusting him is fine, but I would not just throw his name out there.  Methodx never claimed he knew Rune or vouched for him, he just said he liked the guy. (or something like that)  Lots of people like Rune, it is just that Rune didn't name drop them... so it isn't fair to methodx.

It is what it is...I have no intentions of excluding him from this little shindig.  He seemed pretty interested in joining Rune's little "private" discussion...though he had no mic and did (to his defense) seem like he was fiddling with that the entire discussion and likely could have missed Rune's attempt to appeal to my greed.  I am concerned because the best scammers are those who put themselves in positions of trust, otherwise how would they ever be effective?

You very well could be right.  But if someone came on here spouting out and coming up with these plans, saying I brought them here...I would be openly stating otherwise.  Has he?  If so, please accept my apologies Method.  I would love to believe otherwise...trust me.
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: CLains on October 30, 2014, 12:51:48 pm
Whatever the merits of this pitch fork session, paranoia (fuzz), cynicism (gamey) or hostility (tonyk) does have its place in ensuring the survival of this ecosystem, as a lot of things can go wrong "politically." Hopefully Rune and others will not view this as a personal attack, but rather as an immune system reaction that helps to protect the system. I would add that the community is in a sensitive period as market cap has fallen from 65 to 40 million in 30 days, and all hope rests with forces that to most of us remain distant and opaque.
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: xeroc on October 30, 2014, 01:06:13 pm
Whatever the merits of this pitch fork session, paranoia (fuzz), cynicism (gamey) or hostility (tonyk) does have its place in ensuring the survival of this ecosystem, as a lot of things can go wrong "politically." Hopefully Rune and others will not view this as a personal attack, but rather as an immune system reaction that helps to protect the system. I would add that the community is in a sensitive period as market cap has fallen from 65 to 40 million in 30 days, and all hope rests with forces that to most of us remain distant and opaque.
+5%

Maybe I made my personal position no clear yet .. but I am all for having a group of people behind a SINGLE delegate .. What I am against is a set of delegates that are conspiring in a secret group
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: fuzzy on October 30, 2014, 01:10:25 pm
Whatever the merits of this pitch fork session, paranoia (fuzz), cynicism (gamey) or hostility (tonyk) does have its place in ensuring the survival of this ecosystem, as a lot of things can go wrong "politically." Hopefully Rune and others will not view this as a personal attack, but rather as an immune system reaction that helps to protect the system. I would add that the community is in a sensitive period as market cap has fallen from 65 to 40 million in 30 days, and all hope rests with forces that to most of us remain distant and opaque.

CLains.  Though I respect your intentions I would do my best if I were you to stop labeling the people who have worked side by side with you for the past year with these ridiculous labels.

It is dismissive and borderline disrespectful of those with  genuine concerns and belies a fundamental naivety.  Not all people have good intentions.  Would it be rational for me to call you paranoid and stick up for someone after they made a blatant attempt to do something similar to you? 

How would you take it if someone approached you in such a way?  Would you jump on the opportunity and say "oh this guy must be legit...advocating transparency and secret power blocks at the same time is is definitely congruent with trustworthy behavior"

I am going to gently tell you to sit back and read before calling us names and defending him.  You risk a great deal for EVERYONE by trying to a fault to be politically correct.
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: fuzzy on October 30, 2014, 01:18:12 pm
Whatever the merits of this pitch fork session, paranoia (fuzz), cynicism (gamey) or hostility (tonyk) does have its place in ensuring the survival of this ecosystem, as a lot of things can go wrong "politically." Hopefully Rune and others will not view this as a personal attack, but rather as an immune system reaction that helps to protect the system. I would add that the community is in a sensitive period as market cap has fallen from 65 to 40 million in 30 days, and all hope rests with forces that to most of us remain distant and opaque.
+5%

Maybe I made my personal position no clear yet .. but I am all for having a group of people behind a SINGLE delegate .. What I am against is a set of delegates that are conspiring in a secret group

Xeroc.  I never intended to come across as frustrared with you (or you either, C).  I know for a fact, though, you were there for the second time I met with him (after the last hangout).  I am simply saying you guys sometimes confuse niceness and charm with trustworthiness.  The bigger this gets, the more eloquent will be the players....

This is a rule, not an exception.  Those who do not see it are putting eveyone at risk by making dissent of such tactics "unpopular". 

Dan was right when he pondered whether bitcoin had become the antithesis of what it was meant to be.  This is not a tribal diatribe but a statement born of fact...
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: GaltReport on October 30, 2014, 01:18:20 pm
Wow, so much drama.  Maybe people need to take  a step back and try to have an "arms length relationship" with Bitshares and other community members.

http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/arm-s-length-relationship

More matter of fact, business-like, less personal.
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: fuzzy on October 30, 2014, 01:22:51 pm
Drama?  Or someones genuine concern over someone telling him to quit his job, join a secret alliance of big stake holders and close the open forum he built to protect this community?

Call it what you wish, it still doesnt change facts...

Of course if you guys would have preferred I join this alliance or keep quiet while Rune continues to make attempts to gain trust in the community while openly telling me of his intentions...then so be it. 

Also as a note to the arms length relationships...this his not how you build a viral network effect.  It requires something deeper.
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: xeroc on October 30, 2014, 01:30:00 pm
Xeroc.  I never intended to come across as frustrared with you (or you either, C).  I know for a fact, though, you were there for the second time I met with him (after the last hangout). I am simply saying you guys sometimes confuse niceness and charm with trustworthiness.  The bigger this gets, the more eloquent will be the players....

This is a rule, not an exception.  Those who do not see it are putting everyone at risk by making dissent of such tactics "unpopular". 
You are probably right about this .. Most of the time I am to naive about most things ..
And I thank you (really) for reminding me about it ...

It is pretty difficult to read between the lines and guess about the intentions someone might have .. or might not ..
I agree with you that our friend seems to be pretty inconsistent about openness, trust, and secrecy .. But I not necessarily see his intension to harm the community or the project ... No needs to be trusted .. not me, nor Rune, nor fuzz .. maybe BM to not mess with the code/blockchain .. but that's about it ..
There's no need for trust!

However, there is the need for open discussions about things that are (mildly spoken) "odd". And I thank you, fuzz, for being the guy to have the courage to take that step ..
The task of the community, as I see it, is to give the stakeholders hints and information about what to consider when voting (https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=10735.0)

My personal conclusion from this is:
Not be shortsighted and approve delegates on first sight because they seem nice
(be ensured that was not the case before and will not be the case after this discussion)
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: GaltReport on October 30, 2014, 01:34:03 pm
Drama?  Or someones genuine concern over someone telling him to quit his job, join a secret alliance of big stake holders and close the open forum he built to protect this community?

Call it what you wish, it still doesnt change facts...

Of course if you guys would have preferred I join this alliance or keep quiet while Rune continues to make attempts to gain trust in the community while openly telling me of his intentions...then so be it. 

Also as a note to the arms length relationships...this his not how you build a viral network effect.  It requires something deeper.

By Drama I mean all that you related, not that you are making things needlessly dramatic. :)

By and large though it just reinforces in me my non-trust of virtually everyone. I try not to base relationships on high-levels of trust.  I really only have different levels of non-trust, be it my own family or the pet dog.  In fact, anytime some asks me to trust them, I immediately put up my guard because they seem to want me to lower it...for some reason. 

By arms length I just mean, matter of fact...based on facts and knowledge of each persons actions and interests.  "Spock like".  Not based on "trust".  As a result, I try to avoid asking anyone to trust me.

Edit: BTW, BM has earned the 2nd highest level of non-trust that I have.  ;)  (This is positive on my scale)
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: Agent86 on October 30, 2014, 01:43:21 pm
Whatever the merits of this pitch fork session, paranoia (fuzz), cynicism (gamey) or hostility (tonyk) does have its place in ensuring the survival of this ecosystem, as a lot of things can go wrong "politically." Hopefully Rune and others will not view this as a personal attack, but rather as an immune system reaction that helps to protect the system. I would add that the community is in a sensitive period as market cap has fallen from 65 to 40 million in 30 days, and all hope rests with forces that to most of us remain distant and opaque.
I also think we should be careful about judging people's intent too quickly. Sometimes there can be misunderstandings or disagreements about ideas that seem to turn personal.

I've never talked to Rune and haven't followed all his posts but his posts didn't jump out as malicious to me.  That being said, I can understand others may have experiences & info I don't so it is fine to share.
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: fuzzy on October 30, 2014, 01:49:06 pm
Drama?  Or someones genuine concern over someone telling him to quit his job, join a secret alliance of big stake holders and close the open forum he built to protect this community?

Call it what you wish, it still doesnt change facts...

Of course if you guys would have preferred I join this alliance or keep quiet while Rune continues to make attempts to gain trust in the community while openly telling me of his intentions...then so be it. 

Also as a note to the arms length relationships...this his not how you build a viral network effect.  It requires something deeper.

By Drama I mean all that you related, not that you are making things needlessly dramatic. :)

By and large though it just reinforces in me my non-trust of virtually everyone. I try not to base relationships on high-levels of trust.  I really only have different levels of non-trust, be it my own family or the pet dog.  In fact, anytime some asks me to trust them, I immediately put up my guard because they seem to want me to lower it...for some reason. 

By arms length I just mean, matter of fact...based on facts and knowledge of each persons actions and interests.  Not based on "trust".  As a result, I try to avoid asking anyone to trust me.

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By and large though it just reinforces in me my non-trust of virtually everyone.
  ...thank you for making me laugh Galt.  People can be trusted, but we have to make them prove themselves.  And by proving themselves...I do not mean pouring honey in our ears.

What little power that I have in this community was given by ALL of you--trusting me.  I have no intention of ever letting that trust fail you or anyone else who has paid their dues and stands here today as one of the founding members of this Decentralized Autonomous Community (thank you for that post btw, BM--you invoked the spirit George Washington, hell..yeh.).  The Mumble will continue to be Open Forum.  However, I am seriously considering giving "power" of Beyond Bitcoin's forum moderation to someone else I trust (more on that at another time).  My work helping organize community discussions, however, will continue because I am certain that there needs to be a historical record of the events that take place here. 

Think Bigger Pinky.  This is not just crypto"currency"---it is a movement. THIS IS GALTS GULCH!
People will do well to remind themselves the factors that brought them here and the corruption that created such a huge vaccuum that so many flocked to crypto in the first place.  We have a chance to set the world right.  Let's not let virtual tokens get in the way of what really matters...our "slightly less than arms-length" relationships :P 
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: fuzzy on October 30, 2014, 01:52:45 pm
Whatever the merits of this pitch fork session, paranoia (fuzz), cynicism (gamey) or hostility (tonyk) does have its place in ensuring the survival of this ecosystem, as a lot of things can go wrong "politically." Hopefully Rune and others will not view this as a personal attack, but rather as an immune system reaction that helps to protect the system. I would add that the community is in a sensitive period as market cap has fallen from 65 to 40 million in 30 days, and all hope rests with forces that to most of us remain distant and opaque.
I also think we should be careful about judging people's intent too quickly. Sometimes there can be misunderstandings or disagreements about ideas that seem to turn personal.

I've never talked to Rune and haven't followed all his posts but his posts didn't jump out as malicious to me.  That being said, I can understand others may have experiences & info I don't so it is fine to share.

There is only one way to take this: 



Now lets just say for a moment that this hypothetical guy goes into the Mumble server and tells the Community Event Organizer (CEO)(Not Community Manager) that he is going to be the "Most Powerful Person in Bitshares".  Let's also say that he tells the CEO that he needs to quit his day job and work full time, run a delegate and get it into power.  Then let's say he asks this CEO to speak privately with him after a Mumble Hangout...where he tells the "CEO" of his plans to advocate complete transparency of funds for everyone's accounts under the pretext of honesty and transparency (so he can identify the largest account holders).  Now let's imagine this person saying "I know you aren't going to like this fuzz, but we need to get a group of people in charge of the largest BitShares accounts and form a power block" with them.  We will all have to have secret meetings....

Secret...meetings....  but I digress...

As a matter of fact, it seems even Rune agrees with this! 

Regarding the insider club, you're right that it's a bad thing, but consider that right now the insider club is I3 with no transparency at all. I would prefer to have absolute transparency with nothing being hidden from anyone with no barriers to entry whatsoever, and I hope we can implement that once we have achieved significant network effect. Right now it seems that I3 employees thinks it is vital to keep a lot of information secret to avoid having it stolen by competitors. I trust their judgement in this regard, even if I don't like it, and that is why I proposed the "secret insider club" of large stakeholders to be able to share this sensitive information, so that there at least are people independent from the developers who are able to hear it and report their sentiments to the broader community.

I guess delegates could also be used for this regard, but I suspect that delegates will devolve into politics and we would then be stuck with this secret insider club political elite that I think could go really bad.

Check the link if you want to read all of the thread and see the entire context :)
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=10344.msg136470#msg136470
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: xeroc on October 30, 2014, 02:04:35 pm
My work helping organize community discussions, however, will continue because I am certain that there needs to be a historical record of the events that take place here. 

Think Bigger Pinky.  This is not just crypto"currency"---it is a movement. THIS IS GALTS GULCH!
People will do well to remind themselves the factors that brought them here and the corruption that created such a huge vaccuum that so many flocked to crypto in the first place.  We have a chance to set the world right.  Let's not let virtual tokens get in the way of what really matters...our "slightly less than arms-length" relationships :P
Inspiring post!  +5%
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: Rune on October 30, 2014, 03:25:32 pm
So at first I was a bit disheartened that I seem to give off a super creepy/dishonest vibe to everyone I interact with here... But at least I'm getting lots of attention!

Please don't let your suspicions about me make you decide that multi-people delegates are good, though. Single human delegates will always have the same opportunities to work together, the only difference being that their relationships are transparent. It will not be any easier to manipulate a group of delegates than it will be to manipulate a group-delegate.

copy pasting from my other post:

I'm shocked, but also slightly amused it has come to this, it seems I overestimated the cunning of you humans. My plan might have been foiled for now, but I shall return. Soon I shall rule all!!!

Okay jokes aside, you do remember that I basically gave up on the "secret political party" the very next day. The day I got the idea was the day that I first realized the true potential of bitshares. As I have written elsewhere, I'm convinced that this DAC will eventually grow to own all assets on the planet, and basically become the framework through which humanity will control its actions on a macro scale. My first thought was that such an entity would be absurdly dangerous if it somehow become corrupted along the way and began to pursue profit with no regards for anything else. One of those scenarios was the scenario that Stan mentioned in mumble the day before: if a bank offered to partner with us globally in return for getting sharedropped so they owned 50% of the stake. At first I thought that was something that could actually plausibly happen and would result in the total corruption of the DAC and basically turn in it into a tool of evil. That's why I thought a "greenpeace" group within it would be necessary to mount massive campaigns against any such corruption, and even if possible somehow retain the tools to kill off the DAC rather than "let it fall into the enemies hands". The fact that I wanted it to be "secret" in the beginning was simply because I wanted to figure out if there was actually people interested in a project like that. I was brand new to the forum and didn't know anyones intentions or behaviour here. I'd obviously not want to jump onto the board as a new guy and announce this hippie-greenpeace political movement and then have everyone ignore it or attack it.

Obviously, the next day I realized that the corruption risk of the DAC is much lower than I initially thought, since delegates are not really politicians, but rather employees, and more importantly that pretty much everyone of the current stakeholders are not primarily profit-motivated and would most likely not support a bank takeover.

I stand by the fact that whoever controls the framework of communications in the DAC, are and will be the most powerful people. That's why I went to talk to fuzzy first - I needed to figure out if he was prone to corruption or not, and if he was willing to actively fight it. I guess it's a big advantage that he has the integrity to disclose basically any private conversation that he considers to be shady or with dishonest intentions... Even if that means that people on this forum will now think I'm some behind-the-scenes evil mastermind.

It doesn't really matter to me in the long run. I have secured my stake, and I'm certain to become obscenely rich off all this. Anything I've done beyond that has simply been an attempt to help the DAC flesh out its workings from the beginning - once it gets off the ground and the ball gets rolling, the ideas and opinions of individual people will not matter much anymore, as in the long run capital will find its way to whoever are the best at allocating it profitably.

Also I own around 10 million BTS that I got from running my business and investing everything into bitcoin before the bubbles. That's all I have, so it's nowhere near "thousands" of BTC.

Edit: Also why are people suddenly targeting methodX?? I have literally not interacted with him beyond posts on this forum and a few PM's. Please don't turn this into some witch hunt.
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: toast on October 30, 2014, 03:30:04 pm

Secret...meetings....  but I digress...


Secret meetings are happening continuously and involve practically everyone nowadays. They are normal.
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: nomoreheroes7 on October 30, 2014, 03:33:39 pm
Also I own around 10 million BTS that I got from running my business and investing everything into bitcoin before the bubbles. That's all I have, so it's nowhere near "thousands" of BTC.

Holy hell that's a lot of BTS. I thought I had a decent amount, too...feel so small.  :(
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: zerosum on October 30, 2014, 04:21:41 pm

Secret...meetings....  but I digress...


Secret meetings are happening continuously and involve practically everyone nowadays. They are normal.

Secret meetings should be outlawed in a Decentralized Autonomous Community.  :)


Whatever the merits of this pitch fork session, paranoia (fuzz), cynicism (gamey) or hostility (tonyk) does have its place in ensuring the survival of this ecosystem, as a lot of things can go wrong "politically." Hopefully Rune and others will not view this as a personal attack, but rather as an immune system reaction that helps to protect the system. I would add that the community is in a sensitive period as market cap has fallen from 65 to 40 million in 30 days, and all hope rests with forces that to most of us remain distant and opaque.

Wait now. How did my former self came in this conversation? I neither proposed a secret club nor was offered to join one. That is pretty hostile to randomly put me in any discussion ( to say nothing about labeling me) just because you feel like it.

On that note I officially state that I take you and your community projects off of my donations list for being too hostile! I will redirect all funds to xeroc community effort only, from now on!
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: Rune on October 30, 2014, 04:45:31 pm
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Secret meetings should be outlawed in a Decentralized Autonomous Community.  :)

I principally agree, but it would be impossible to enforce. Personal communication can and should be 100% private, but professional communication should preferably be as transparent and non-secret as possible (with the option of the delegates to remain pseudonomous I don't think it would be privacy invasion).

The next best thing, IMO, is to at least have a social consensus of 1 delegate = 1 human. Then it will be possible to detect if there is secret communication between delegates that e.g. are working together on the same project, because it should be easiest for them to communicate in the DAC framework that they are both active members of (if we observe collaboration but no such communication, then we can assume they are secretly communicating).

Again, obviously secret communication can never be prevented, but large secret power/trust structures can be made much more difficult to construct.
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: Method-X on October 30, 2014, 05:37:39 pm
Rune found BitShares through the AMA I did in /r/BitcoinMarkets. I don't think his intentions are bad. He strikes me as being genuinely passionate about this technology and wants to see it reach its potential. Until I see otherwise, I support him.
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: xeroc on October 30, 2014, 05:48:59 pm
Rune found BitShares through the AMA I did in /r/BitcoinMarkets. I don't think his intentions are bad. He strikes me as being genuinely passionate about this technology and wants to see it reach its potential. Until I see otherwise, I support him.
I am not complaining about his intentions .. I a complaining about his behavior against members of the community .. it doesn't have anything to do with crypto in general .. I just cannot tolerate parts of his actions!
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: gamey on October 30, 2014, 05:59:02 pm
Whatever the merits of this pitch fork session, paranoia (fuzz), cynicism (gamey) or hostility (tonyk) does have its place in ensuring the survival of this ecosystem, as a lot of things can go wrong "politically." Hopefully Rune and others will not view this as a personal attack, but rather as an immune system reaction that helps to protect the system. I would add that the community is in a sensitive period as market cap has fallen from 65 to 40 million in 30 days, and all hope rests with forces that to most of us remain distant and opaque.
I also think we should be careful about judging people's intent too quickly. Sometimes there can be misunderstandings or disagreements about ideas that seem to turn personal.

I've never talked to Rune and haven't followed all his posts but his posts didn't jump out as malicious to me.  That being said, I can understand others may have experiences & info I don't so it is fine to share.

I for one Never thought he was malicious.  I think it is extreme self-interest and manipulation to the detriment of BitShares as a whole.  People expose their true intentions in the smallest things they do.  I could give other small examples because I talked to Rune briefly after the Mumble session last week, but like Galt said this drama is distasteful.  I had no idea Fuz was doing this nor do I understand why he felt the need to do this now.  Oh well.

edit - originally I had left off the N on never. 
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: zerosum on October 30, 2014, 06:29:30 pm
In an attempt to change the subject

I think that


Cooperatives Are The New Turtles




Cooperatives all the way down.....
Cooperatives all the way
Cooperatives all the
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Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: Ander on October 30, 2014, 06:32:44 pm
So at first I was a bit disheartened that I seem to give off a super creepy/dishonest vibe to everyone I interact with here... But at least I'm getting lots of attention!

I didnt get that vibe from you at all.  I get the vibe of someone who understands the vision of Bitshares and is excited about it.

(The only thing you proposed that I didnt like was the idea of using dilution to increase the bitasset yield.  But my being against that idea doesnt mean I am against you in general, I love everything else you have written about bitshares).
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: Ander on October 30, 2014, 06:42:46 pm
I think we are all upset by the price drop of BTS, and as a result we are getting angry with each other.   

Lets all not take too personally things that we said to each other today, given that we are actually just venting frustrations about the share price.
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: nomoreheroes7 on October 30, 2014, 06:47:37 pm
I think we are all upset by the price drop of BTS, and as a result we are getting angry with each other.   

Lets all not take too personally things that we said to each other today, given that we are actually just venting frustrations about the share price.

lol there's probably more truth to this than many of us realize...
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: donkeypong on October 30, 2014, 06:47:54 pm
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Secret meetings should be outlawed in a Decentralized Autonomous Community.  :)

I principally agree, but it would be impossible to enforce. Personal communication can and should be 100% private, but professional communication should preferably be as transparent and non-secret as possible (with the option of the delegates to remain pseudonomous I don't think it would be privacy invasion).

The next best thing, IMO, is to at least have a social consensus of 1 delegate = 1 human. Then it will be possible to detect if there is secret communication between delegates that e.g. are working together on the same project, because it should be easiest for them to communicate in the DAC framework that they are both active members of (if we observe collaboration but no such communication, then we can assume they are secretly communicating).

Again, obviously secret communication can never be prevented, but large secret power/trust structures can be made much more difficult to construct.

Fuzz and xeroc are pillars of BitShares. They give of their time to help this community, often reaching beyond it to help others as well, and they receive practically nothing in return. Rune, I think you've been a great addition and you are very welcome here. Differences of opinion are fine; they're great. But if you've done something to cross these folks, then you've done something that should be re-considered. As for how to handle that, I leave it up to you.

Let me suggest a possible middle ground. Rune has the right idea in terms of pushing for full transparency. But I really don't see how it would be any easier to detect secret collaboration when a delegate is one person rather than a group of persons. Whatever the structure, there is plenty of potential for fraud, but with grater scale and broader ownership, this risk decreases. We're just going to have to watch out for that sort of thing and have some trusted members who blow the whistle when they spot anything weird. Remember, we have the power of the poll: Don't like what they're doing? Vote them out. And use your standing with the community to campaign to get them voted out.

I think a group delegate or cooperative delegate can be a wonderful addition. Hopefully, there should be enough delegate income to go around and to fund some groups who are performing worthy services on behalf of the BitShares Community. I strongly support multi-person delegates.

And yet I do see Rune's point to some degree. Suggestions: (1) What about suggesting that Cooperative Delegates disclose their principal (or all) members? (2) Another option would be to handle them like Limited Partnerships (LPs) in the United States where there is essentially one active, managing partner who runs the delegate's business, and the possibility of other passive partners who are helpers, investors, etc., who are involved less in the management and largely stay in the background? That front person would be expected to communicate with the community, etc., and put his/her reputation on the line.

Just some brainstormed thoughts. Feel free to discuss or suggest alternatives.
 
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: sschechter on October 30, 2014, 07:17:30 pm
Rune found BitShares through the AMA I did in /r/BitcoinMarkets. I don't think his intentions are bad. He strikes me as being genuinely passionate about this technology and wants to see it reach its potential. Until I see otherwise, I support him.

 +5% While I didn't agree with his inflation giveaway idea, he makes good contributions to the community.
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: luckybit on October 30, 2014, 07:30:57 pm
However, if each delegate has multiple participants, it is FAR more difficult to get all of them to secretly collude.  It is also FAR more difficult a task for the "Community Manager" to control them.  This situation actually happened.  And in case the quotation marks around every instance of the word "hypothetical" failed to denote my sarcasm...This was NOT a hypothetical situation--it actually happened.   

I have said it once in this thread:  https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=10344.msg141609#msg141609 

I am sorry Ghensto.  I let you down.  I am not an infiltrator...I am a person with an honest heart who is terrified at what humanity is capable of when "profit" is on the line.  I have attempted to do as you said, even sent emails to both of these hypothetical figures telling them they could be on the Beyond Bitcoin Delegate slate so I could gain more money--to use as a tool to fight these people...but I can't do it.  I have to do what is in my heart...and that is what I have always done, be it popular or unpopular. 

Let the f'ing "politics" begin.   :(

My input is that in terms of security small groups of 3-5 participants are the maximum that you need to represent a collective delegate. Larger than this and communication becomes difficult while smaller than this could result in easy corruptibility.

Reputation should be quantifiable, but it is very likely that politics will play a role. At some point factions are going to form and having regional cooperatives which then are populated by collectives of 3-4 individuals per clique within the cooperative is how you can decentralize the entire ecosystem while making it difficult to attack.

References
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1149843
http://people.su.se/~yvze0888/Ballester%20Calvo%20Zenou%20Econometrica%202006.pdf
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: luckybit on October 30, 2014, 07:37:27 pm
Whatever the merits of this pitch fork session, paranoia (fuzz), cynicism (gamey) or hostility (tonyk) does have its place in ensuring the survival of this ecosystem, as a lot of things can go wrong "politically." Hopefully Rune and others will not view this as a personal attack, but rather as an immune system reaction that helps to protect the system. I would add that the community is in a sensitive period as market cap has fallen from 65 to 40 million in 30 days, and all hope rests with forces that to most of us remain distant and opaque.
+5%

Maybe I made my personal position no clear yet .. but I am all for having a group of people behind a SINGLE delegate .. What I am against is a set of delegates that are conspiring in a secret group

Anyone can be come a delegate whether it be cooperative, corporation, or any individuals as long as they are trusted.

How do you stop secret conspiracies?
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: Rune on October 30, 2014, 07:50:36 pm
Rune found BitShares through the AMA I did in /r/BitcoinMarkets. I don't think his intentions are bad. He strikes me as being genuinely passionate about this technology and wants to see it reach its potential. Until I see otherwise, I support him.
I am not complaining about his intentions .. I a complaining about his behavior against members of the community .. it doesn't have anything to do with crypto in general .. I just cannot tolerate parts of his actions!

Listen, I didn't want to "tempt" fuzzy if that is what you are referring to. It was entirely coincidence that it ended up looking like I was doing some evil shady cabal group. What I wanted to do was to basically have a group of "greenpeacers" who would always fight for the core purpose of the DAC, which is to be a benefit to humanity (IMO). I preferred not talking about it in the public mumble channel because before I could figure out how much stake would get behind it, I'd risk being totally ridiculed to the community as a new guy with stupid ideas.

At no point was it my intention to be malicious or dishonest to anyone. That instance is the only one I can think of that could have made you angry at me, if it's not that then I seriously have no clue.
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: gamey on October 30, 2014, 08:22:25 pm
Rune found BitShares through the AMA I did in /r/BitcoinMarkets. I don't think his intentions are bad. He strikes me as being genuinely passionate about this technology and wants to see it reach its potential. Until I see otherwise, I support him.
I am not complaining about his intentions .. I a complaining about his behavior against members of the community .. it doesn't have anything to do with crypto in general .. I just cannot tolerate parts of his actions!

Listen, I didn't want to "tempt" fuzzy if that is what you are referring to. It was entirely coincidence that it ended up looking like I was doing some evil shady cabal group. What I wanted to do was to basically have a group of "greenpeacers" who would always fight for the core purpose of the DAC, which is to be a benefit to humanity (IMO). I preferred not talking about it in the public mumble channel because before I could figure out how much stake would get behind it, I'd risk being totally ridiculed to the community as a new guy with stupid ideas.

At no point was it my intention to be malicious or dishonest to anyone. That instance is the only one I can think of that could have made you angry at me, if it's not that then I seriously have no clue.

I was there when you were talking to Fuz last Friday because it was between the 2 hangouts we had that day (the other one being okturtles).  I wanted to really hear you in action.  One thing I distinctly remember is that when Fuz balked at being an inflating delegate, you laughed as you informed him the worst thing that happens is you are voted out.  You didn't laugh a lot, but you laughed at that point and one other that I recall.  IMO it was quite telling, but I'd already had a strong suspicion on what was up, so my observations would have been biased.

Not to mention how odd it was that the first hangout you went to was the one after inflation was announced.  ;)
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: Rune on October 30, 2014, 09:37:46 pm
I was there when you were talking to Fuz last Friday because it was between the 2 hangouts we had that day (the other one being okturtles).  I wanted to really hear you in action.  One thing I distinctly remember is that when Fuz balked at being an inflating delegate, you laughed as you informed him the worst thing that happens is you are voted out.  You didn't laugh a lot, but you laughed at that point and one other that I recall.  IMO it was quite telling, but I'd already had a strong suspicion on what was up, so my observations would have been biased.

Not to mention how odd it was that the first hangout you went to was the one after inflation was announced.  ;)

Well that is exactly why I don't get the irrational fear of inflating delegates. The worst thing that will happen in case they turn rogue is that the community will have to vote them out. Unless they're allowed to go rogue for more than 2 weeks the community will even profit from it.

I think its amazing that the ability for the DAC to pay its delegates a real salary is somehow this super evil thing, and that I'm apparently super suspicious for recognizing its potential. I was nowhere near as excited for BTSX before the announcement of inflation exactly because it will come to be known as by far the most powerful feature of the DAC. BTS without inflation isn't anything special. The fact that our blockchain is able to directly pay a competitive salary for its own development is the one feature that the entire crypto community will come to know us by, and what will result in us ultimately taking the entire crypto market cap.
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: gamey on October 30, 2014, 09:47:19 pm
I was there when you were talking to Fuz last Friday because it was between the 2 hangouts we had that day (the other one being okturtles).  I wanted to really hear you in action.  One thing I distinctly remember is that when Fuz balked at being an inflating delegate, you laughed as you informed him the worst thing that happens is you are voted out.  You didn't laugh a lot, but you laughed at that point and one other that I recall.  IMO it was quite telling, but I'd already had a strong suspicion on what was up, so my observations would have been biased.

Not to mention how odd it was that the first hangout you went to was the one after inflation was announced.  ;)

Well that is exactly why I don't get the irrational fear of inflating delegates. The worst thing that will happen in case they turn rogue is that the community will have to vote them out. Unless they're allowed to go rogue for more than 2 weeks the community will even profit from it.

I think its amazing that the ability for the DAC to pay its delegates a real salary is somehow this super evil thing, and that I'm apparently super suspicious for recognizing its potential. I was nowhere near as excited for BTSX before the announcement of inflation exactly because it will come to be known as by far the most powerful feature of the DAC. BTS without inflation isn't anything special. The fact that our blockchain is able to directly pay a competitive salary for its own development is the one feature that the entire crypto community will come to know us by, and what will result in us ultimately taking the entire crypto market cap.

I was never against inflation as a general principle.  When we discussed it previously on this site I never argued against it like others.  I'm not sure where the "super evil" talk comes from except you trying to simplify and therefore dismiss my observations.  More manipulative bullshit.

I am just pointing out the callousness towards the whole thing, which seems contrary to the public face you put on with these forums.  This on top of you wanting Fuz to quit his job and do other things while you paid him.  Seemingly with the expectation that Fuz start up a slate. rofl
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: ticklebiscuit on October 30, 2014, 10:09:32 pm
Rune want profit

Who cares if rune make you the king? If the sheep flock to you, take their fur!

We only need profit. If sheep too cold for winter, the wolves have a easy job.  Yum..rune will own this community if you like or not. Method is making a facebook! use mumble for secret...baaaah baaaaah. Sheep so tasty! Time to eat!  Some sheep been here a long time. Baaaa baaaah
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: Vizzini on October 30, 2014, 10:29:19 pm
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Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: Rune on October 30, 2014, 10:46:24 pm
Seemingly with the expectation that Fuz start up a slate. rofl

"seemingly with the expectation" that he would start up a slate? Is that what this is about? I tried to be nice to fuzzy and wanted to encourage him to work full time for the DAC, and this means I'm being manipulative because I'm "seemingly" trying to be put on his slate????? Come on, using the word seemingly literally means you're admitting that I never even said such a thing, and that you've basically made up the entire accusation about my supposedly sinister motives!
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: GaltReport on October 30, 2014, 10:50:04 pm
(http://cdn.themetapicture.com/media/funny-sheep-alpacas-undercover.jpg)

ROFL!!  Too Funny man.  Probably true as well.
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: starspirit on October 30, 2014, 10:50:40 pm
The political aspect (and power-control) of any community cannot be under-rated, and as this community grows it is critical to discuss issues like this one, and ensure that we have the best protections possible for the community as a whole.

At the same time, privacy of communication within and between any parties is in my view a free right of all entities, whether they are individuals or collectives. In any case, it is not possible to enforce anything to the contrary. So it is important that the decision-structures in place are designed to allow for this and still protect the community. That is the challenge.

Its my impression that a benefit of allowing delegates to be collectives is that they can engage greater skill contribution from the community, and contribute so much more to it. Would non-cooperating individual delegates really maximise value for a potential community of a billion people? Is Rune's issue that single individuals will be able to secretly control multiple delegates if they are opaque collectives? Is it possible to prevent that anyway in a decentralised community where  individuals could have multiple aliases? Are other controls possible?

I think the debate needs to be clear and open without any labelling of people or intentions.
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: GaltReport on October 30, 2014, 10:51:00 pm
Rune want profit

Who cares if rune make you the king? If the sheep flock to you, take their fur!

We only need profit. If sheep too cold for winter, the wolves have a easy job.  Yum..rune will own this community if you like or not. Method is making a facebook! use mumble for secret...baaaah baaaaah. Sheep so tasty! Time to eat!  Some sheep been here a long time. Baaaa baaaah

You're pretty smart for a biscuit!
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: julian1 on October 30, 2014, 11:09:54 pm
Whatever the merits of this pitch fork session, paranoia (fuzz), cynicism (gamey) or hostility (tonyk) does have its place in ensuring the survival of this ecosystem, as a lot of things can go wrong "politically." Hopefully Rune and others will not view this as a personal attack, but rather as an immune system reaction that helps to protect the system. I would add that the community is in a sensitive period as market cap has fallen from 65 to 40 million in 30 days, and all hope rests with forces that to most of us remain distant and opaque.
+5%

Maybe I made my personal position no clear yet .. but I am all for having a group of people behind a SINGLE delegate .. What I am against is a set of delegates that are conspiring in a secret group

Anyone can be come a delegate whether it be cooperative, corporation, or any individuals as long as they are trusted.

How do you stop secret conspiracies?

By forcing them to compete with other secret conspirators..

Personally I'd like to see delegates being represented from mainstream banking and industry. For example, JP Morgan Chase putting their name behind securing the chain with their own delegate, which would in turn earn them free advertising/exposure as a supporter of new technology.
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: fuzzy on October 31, 2014, 01:47:01 am
By forcing them to compete with other secret conspirators..

Personally I'd like to see delegates being represented from mainstream banking and industry. For example, JP Morgan Chase putting their name behind securing the chain with their own delegate, which would in turn earn them free advertising/exposure as a supporter of new technology. [/size]

That would be a great idea, accept secret conspirators rarely actually "compete".  Just one example... "Libor"

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jessecolombo/2014/06/03/this-new-libor-scandal-will-cause-a-terrifying-financial-crisis/

Bringing in these players is likely what ethereum will do though.  So I suppose we will eventually all have to choose between money and higher principles.  Unfortunately, it seems the people talking about sheep are likely right...
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: fuzzy on October 31, 2014, 02:34:03 am
Seemingly with the expectation that Fuz start up a slate. rofl

"seemingly with the expectation" that he would start up a slate? Is that what this is about? I tried to be nice to fuzzy and wanted to encourage him to work full time for the DAC, and this means I'm being manipulative because I'm "seemingly" trying to be put on his slate????? Come on, using the word seemingly literally means you're admitting that I never even said such a thing, and that you've basically made up the entire accusation about my supposedly sinister motives!

Dang Rune...

It is amazing to me how you cannot see your entry into this community was full of reasons for us to distrust you.  It is odd to me that someone with 1000+ BTC, and a student of economics and neuroscience can have such a difficult time seeing how your actions have risen alarm:

1) "you are going to be the most powerful man in bitshares..."
2)  "hey btw lets make a secret group of high rollers..."
3)  "you quit your job and i'll "take the risk" to pay you to work full time...you can get a delegate up and running to pay me back"
4)  "I recommend fuzzy become Community Manager, running a delegate and being paid 10-15k a month"
5)  "These open Mumble hangouts need to change.  Questions need to go through you."
6)  "Don't worry fuzz, the worst that can happen is you get voted out (and who would replace me???  Hm...)
7)  "bitshares is going to own the world!!"
8 )  "Delegates should only have one person"

If you do not already understand, I hope these 8 points help clarify.  I am trying to make it easy for you...because I am tired.  Many of us are tired, because we have actually worked on this community for the past year.  Then it becomes slightly annoying when people come in making 20+ posts a day regarding FUNDAMENTAL restructuring and acting like they have earned our trust. 

Hubris...or ignorance.  I am not sure which it is.  I hope it is the latter, but suspect otherwise.
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: gamey on October 31, 2014, 03:44:36 am
Seemingly with the expectation that Fuz start up a slate. rofl

"seemingly with the expectation" that he would start up a slate? Is that what this is about? I tried to be nice to fuzzy and wanted to encourage him to work full time for the DAC, and this means I'm being manipulative because I'm "seemingly" trying to be put on his slate????? Come on, using the word seemingly literally means you're admitting that I never even said such a thing, and that you've basically made up the entire accusation about my supposedly sinister motives!


The reason I used 'seemingly' is because I don't remember what specifically was said about slates.  I think you said something, but I don't particularly remember.  I only use seemingly to express not being certain.  The rest I said I have been certain about and only do not try to talk like facts when not quite certain.

You didn't even try to deny any of it previously, instead preferring to call yourself a ""greenpeacer"".  Now I dunno, I'm making it up?  This is becoming more absurd.  Ok, you didn't ever mention slates.   ::)

please go start a thread on the obvious and non-issue of whether topline devs can have more than 1 delegate.  Oh man forum must love you now !  What a good poster.

edit - I'll likely just keep responding to you in this thread.  I can be quite annoying that way.
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: xeroc on October 31, 2014, 08:16:48 am
Dang Rune...

It is amazing to me how you cannot see your entry into this community was full of reasons for us to distrust you.  It is odd to me that someone with 1000+ BTC, and a student of economics and neuroscience can have such a difficult time seeing how your actions have risen alarm:

1) "you are going to be the most powerful man in bitshares..."
2)  "hey btw lets make a secret group of high rollers..."
3)  "you quit your job and i'll "take the risk" to pay you to work full time...you can get a delegate up and running to pay me back"
4)  "I recommend fuzzy become Community Manager, running a delegate and being paid 10-15k a month"
5)  "These open Mumble hangouts need to change.  Questions need to go through you."
6)  "Don't worry fuzz, the worst that can happen is you get voted out (and who would replace me???  Hm...)
7)  "bitshares is going to own the world!!"
8 )  "Delegates should only have one person"

If you do not already understand, I hope these 8 points help clarify.  I am trying to make it easy for you...because I am tired.  Many of us are tired, because we have actually worked on this community for the past year.  Then it becomes slightly annoying when people come in making 20+ posts a day regarding FUNDAMENTAL restructuring and acting like they have earned our trust. 

Hubris...or ignorance.  I am not sure which it is.  I hope it is the latter, but suspect otherwise.
Nice post .. and that's where I have my problems too .. I cannot tell about his intentions ... they may be in favor of BTS .. but the actions he takes are not trustworthy
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: Rune on October 31, 2014, 01:04:11 pm
Seemingly with the expectation that Fuz start up a slate. rofl

"seemingly with the expectation" that he would start up a slate? Is that what this is about? I tried to be nice to fuzzy and wanted to encourage him to work full time for the DAC, and this means I'm being manipulative because I'm "seemingly" trying to be put on his slate????? Come on, using the word seemingly literally means you're admitting that I never even said such a thing, and that you've basically made up the entire accusation about my supposedly sinister motives!

Dang Rune...

It is amazing to me how you cannot see your entry into this community was full of reasons for us to distrust you.  It is odd to me that someone with 1000+ BTC, and a student of economics and neuroscience can have such a difficult time seeing how your actions have risen alarm:

1) "you are going to be the most powerful man in bitshares..."
2)  "hey btw lets make a secret group of high rollers..."
3)  "you quit your job and i'll "take the risk" to pay you to work full time...you can get a delegate up and running to pay me back"
4)  "I recommend fuzzy become Community Manager, running a delegate and being paid 10-15k a month"
5)  "These open Mumble hangouts need to change.  Questions need to go through you."
6)  "Don't worry fuzz, the worst that can happen is you get voted out (and who would replace me???  Hm...)
7)  "bitshares is going to own the world!!"
8 )  "Delegates should only have one person"

If you do not already understand, I hope these 8 points help clarify.  I am trying to make it easy for you...because I am tired.  Many of us are tired, because we have actually worked on this community for the past year.  Then it becomes slightly annoying when people come in making 20+ posts a day regarding FUNDAMENTAL restructuring and acting like they have earned our trust. 

Hubris...or ignorance.  I am not sure which it is.  I hope it is the latter, but suspect otherwise.

This isn't funny anymore. This is paranoia. I can't believe I have to deal with publicly defending myself from something that aren't even allegations, it's just character assassination.

1)
This is simply my observation. You have control of the communications framework and universal support from the community. Well, I guess it's not universal because I will never dare set foot in your mumble server again.

2)
I already explained exactly what this was, in this very thread even, you're deliberately twisting the facts by using these loaded words. I wanted it to be secret because I was brand new to the community and it was my first idea (that I scrapped literally the next day).

3)
I don't understand what's wrong with this. At the time I thought you were an honest, trusted community member. From my point of view it was waste not having you work full time for the DAC.

4)
I already explained in that very thread that the reason why I chose that number as an example is because I'm from Denmark, a country with extremely high tax rate and high prices. That kind of salary isn't out of the ordinary here. Also it was just an ill fated suggestion, there is no way I could possibly control what kind of salary a "community manager" gets.

5)
That very mumble session had been cluttered because everyone had been un muted and spoke over each other. That's simply how things are done once you start scaling up phone conferences or Q&A.

6)
Right, the worst that can happen is you get voted out and can then adjust your pay rate to an acceptable level and get voted back in. If I wanted to replace you why wouldn't I just compete with you??? But seriously I have never shown any desire to take over your job, all I wanted was to help you improve at it.

7)
I've written several posts where I explain why this is my opinion. This fact is even why I was/am so desperate to get things organized ASAP, and why I thought having a powerful faction of stakeholders who would always oppose a bank takeover or other potential corruption would be extremely important.

8)
I've written tonnes of times why I think this is important. I still fail to see how having that opinion could possibly be suspicious.

Also, in addition to already having publicly stated that I supposedly have "1000's of bitcoins", why on earth is it in any way relevant to also reveal my majors? I don't understand how a major can possibly be relevant to me being "suspicious".

Then it becomes slightly annoying when people come in making 20+ posts a day regarding FUNDAMENTAL restructuring and acting like they have earned our trust

Listen to yourself! I have to earn your trust before I'm allowed to speak freely, and if I don't follow these rules then I'm "suspicious"?

There are now 2 posts with several pages devoted to my character assassination. As I wrote elsewhere I currently own only 10 million BTS and nothing else. I bought in at 60 million. While this has been happening I've lost 50% of my life savings because I bet all on BTS. That doesn't disturb me though, I knew what I was getting into. Being publicly attacked like this, on the other hand, is seriously not fun.

I hope you guys one day realize what you have done and how it would feel if this was done to you. I guess it is in vain, though, you will simply dismiss this as me being "manipulative".


Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: TurkeyLeg on October 31, 2014, 01:13:40 pm
Rune - I think if you removed some of your rhetoric and bluster from the forum, and stuck to concise, practical posts about the topics at hand, it would go a long way to improving your reputation with some of the members.

Just my two BTS.
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: fuzzy on October 31, 2014, 01:14:26 pm
This isn't funny anymore. This is paranoia. I can't believe I have to deal with publicly defending myself from something that aren't even allegations, it's just character assassination.

1)
This is simply my observation. You have control of the communications framework and universal support from the community. Well, I guess it's not universal because I will never dare set foot in your mumble server again.
I have "universal support" PRECISELY because I create events and let everyone have their own voice.  This is here for THEM...how the hell would they NOT support a completely open forum where they can attend and ask questions directly to the developer without any barriers?  This is not the "fuzzy" show.  This is the Dev Hangout...where investors get to ask real questions without ever fearing censorship.  So the People give it power---not me.  Not you...and that will never change as long as I can help it.

2)
I already explained exactly what this was, in this very thread even, you're deliberately twisting the facts by using these loaded words. I wanted it to be secret because I was brand new to the community and it was my first idea (that I scrapped literally the next day).
I understand you explained it.  I also never said you didn't.  I simply added it to the list so you could bang your head against said list to see how all the pieces of the puzzle point to something that you (a very intelligent person) should obviously consider. 

3)
I don't understand what's wrong with this. At the time I thought you were an honest, trusted community member. From my point of view it was waste not having you work full time for the DAC.
There are FAR better ways of doing what you did.  You took the liberty where you probably shouldnt have even made the attempt.  You do know we are working in crypto-where 99% of the projects are pump and dump scams, right? 


4)
I already explained in that very thread that the reason why I chose that number as an example is because I'm from Denmark, a country with extremely high tax rate and high prices. That kind of salary isn't out of the ordinary here. Also it was just an ill fated suggestion, there is no way I could possibly control what kind of salary a "community manager" gets.
You "explained" that after people showed how stunned they were at your proposal.  Looked like more of a back step but that is ok.  We all make our errors in judgment.  This list is to HELP CLARIFY where you went wrong.  (Didn't you read the very first part of my post??)


5)
That very mumble session had been cluttered because everyone had been un muted and spoke over each other. That's simply how things are done once you start scaling up phone conferences or Q&A.
People are intelligent enough to self-moderate.  We went from 4-5 member hangouts to 40 and have had no problems thus far.  By your logic, it should be impossible for people to drive on the highway together without massive casualties.  You are a neuroscientist man!  Neuroscientists are not dumb people.   

6)
Right, the worst that can happen is you get voted out and can then adjust your pay rate to an acceptable level and get voted back in. If I wanted to replace you why wouldn't I just compete with you??? But seriously I have never shown any desire to take over your job, all I wanted was to help you improve at it.
I never said you did.  I am simply saying you put me off with your methods...and have laid out a plain and simple list to help you recover from your folly.  Sure, I have been frustrated as well...because I take offense to people coming at me like you did.  I have to remind myself that neuroscience does not equate to behavioral psych or sociology.  :/

7)
I've written several posts where I explain why this is my opinion. This fact is even why I was/am so desperate to get things organized ASAP, and why I thought having a powerful faction of stakeholders who would always oppose a bank takeover or other potential corruption would be extremely important.
In theory that would sound beautiful.  But in practice it is as terrible an idea as I have heard...with the exception of perhaps allowing Invictus (for the time being) to be that powerful faction....As they ENGINEERED the system, have a full understanding of its innerworkings, its strengths and weaknesses, and have the biggest incentive to protect stakeholders in the medium-term. 


8)
I've written tonnes of times why I think this is important. I still fail to see how having that opinion could possibly be suspicious.

Also, in addition to already having publicly stated that I supposedly have "1000's of bitcoins", why on earth is it in any way relevant to also reveal my majors? I don't understand how a major can possibly be relevant to me being "suspicious".
Yet again, this ALONE wouldn't have been a problem, accept that all the puzzle pieces you went throwing around fit together very nicely to paint a pretty shitty picture in my mind.  Sure that cloud could have been the Eifel Tower...or it could have been a big middle finger.  However, you somehow found a way to paint a fingernail on it. 

Then it becomes slightly annoying when people come in making 20+ posts a day regarding FUNDAMENTAL restructuring and acting like they have earned our trust

Listen to yourself! I have to earn your trust before I'm allowed to speak freely, and if I don't follow these rules then I'm "suspicious"?

There are now 2 posts with several pages devoted to my character assassination. As I wrote elsewhere I currently own only 10 million BTS and nothing else. I bought in at 60 million. While this has been happening I've lost 50% of my life savings because I bet all on BTS. That doesn't disturb me though, I knew what I was getting into. Being publicly attacked like this, on the other hand, is seriously not fun.

I hope you guys one day realize what you have done and how it would feel if this was done to you. I guess it is in vain, though, you will simply dismiss this as me being "manipulative".

I WILL NEVER know how it feels because I would NEVER think to approach people as you have done!  My lord man! Listen to yourself...take a deep breath and have some empathy for OUR COMMUNITY!  This isn't some game where people come in day one and tell people how this community will gain consensus.  You obviously wanted to increase your own influence WAY too fast for the comfort of many here.  Accept you f'd up and we can move forward.  Who knows...maybe we'll actually laugh at this someday.  But until you can take a seat and recognize this, I don't see how we can.  (I honestly would LOVE to be able to...)

P.S.  it was never funny to me.  It was actually offensive more than I have been offended in awhile.  Trust me, there are many newbies who have come here and enjoyed open arms...but then again, they didn't do any of the 8 items on the above list.  And if they did, they got hell for it too..
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: xeroc on October 31, 2014, 01:19:43 pm
There are now 2 posts with several pages devoted to my character assassination.
As I wrote elsewhere I currently own only 10 million BTS and nothing else. I
bought in at 60 million. While this has been happening I've lost 50% of my life
savings because I bet all on BTS. That doesn't disturb me though, I knew what I
was getting into. Being publicly attacked like this, on the other hand, is
seriously not fun.

I hope you guys one day realize what you have done and how it would feel if
this was done to you. I guess it is in vain, though, you will simply dismiss
this as me being "manipulative".
It's neither about your character, nor is it about you intension (at least not for me)

It is about the way you approach other people in the community. We are all
grownups and can decide for our own what to do and how many time to spend what
for. And you should reread and rethink fuzz's comments which .. when you try to
be as objective as possible .. really sound "manipulative"!

You must understand, that through a forum it is difficult to see in someone's
heart, see intentions or the meanings behind any words. It's what you write
using your language that let's us interpret. Furthermore, although we are
pretty sure you are an intelligent guy and "get" what this is all about. The
aggressive way you are trying to force people to do thing (this is my personal
interpretation of some of your posts) or the way you propose (although some
ideas are great) .. some others are sold by you as inevitable .. though stupid
from our perspective (maybe).

You must also understand that it is in fact quite offensive to tell someone you
don't know in person, and learn about 3 weeks ago .. to tell that he should
quit his job to work on a highly speculative and risky business while having a
family to feed!! You just CANT do that .. though it might be a good idea ..
someday .. maybe .. but it will be the decision of that individual .. not yours
.. to make!

Let me make one think clear again, it's mainly not WHAT you say, because I like
discussions, it is the HOW you say it that makes you suspicious of our goals
and untrustworthy.

</IMHO>

A last advice: maybe you try to use less aggressive wordings for your texts.
Avoid words like: must, clearly, in the future we will, ...
In this business nothing is 100% certain .. but I see that you are as bullish
on this as most in this community. Just take it little more slowly!
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: bytemaster on October 31, 2014, 01:26:21 pm
Lets calm down.  Rune is passionate and apparently young. 

Lets not judge or accuse.  Lets just do right ourselves. 

We want people with money, passion, and ambition like rune.  We just need to keep it real, open, and honest. 

Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: xeroc on October 31, 2014, 01:34:15 pm
We want people with money, passion, and ambition like rune.  We just need to keep it real, open, and honest.
*agreed* ..

still every member (BM included) needs to consider his written words in such that it transports the intended information .. and leaves as few degrees of freedom for interpretation as possible (no reading between the lines) .. especially considering that there is financial interest involved and plenty of competitors (pfff)

</IMHO>
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: fuzzy on October 31, 2014, 01:41:26 pm
Lets calm down.  Rune is passionate and apparently young. 

Lets not judge or accuse.  Lets just do right ourselves. 

We want people with money, passion, and ambition like rune.  We just need to keep it real, open, and honest.

I have never said otherwise.  Honesty is priceless.  His admitting my concern is based on a logical progression of thought based on a pretty solid PATTERN of behavior... or at least some empathy and understanding how this came across so blatantly bad would go MILES toward fixing this.  Trust is earned
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: sumantso on October 31, 2014, 02:09:34 pm
Lets calm down.  Rune is passionate and apparently young. 

Lets not judge or accuse.  Lets just do right ourselves. 

We want people with money, passion, and ambition like rune.  We just need to keep it real, open, and honest.

The real thing which matters here, sadly.
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: merockstar on October 31, 2014, 02:23:23 pm
I'm confused.

If I want to set up a multiple person delegate, I'm just going to do it-- everyone else be damned.

Anyone else can too. That's the point right?
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: gamey on October 31, 2014, 03:39:10 pm
Lets calm down.  Rune is passionate and apparently young. 

Lets not judge or accuse.  Lets just do right ourselves. 

We want people with money, passion, and ambition like rune.  We just need to keep it real, open, and honest.

You have to judge and accuse to protect people.  It is a sad fact.  trust everyone is the naive sucker's creed.  I've been in very similar situations before and once the money was paid out and I had already left the community in disgust, the person turned on the community almost instantly. I mean same result would have happened regardless as they didn't listen to me or even wished to hear it.  This crypto-currency world due to its nature attracts sophisticated questionable types..  All scams have some initial state where trust is established.

So what is the right thing to do in these cases ?

Anyway.  I will admit that I may very well be wrong about Rune.  It is largely conjecture on my part what his motives really are.   So there is always the chance that I am wrong and that is downside to this sort of thing.  It is up to everyone to read the arguments and make up their mind what is likely. 
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: oldman on October 31, 2014, 03:55:44 pm
There is vast wealth to be made and lost in BitShares.

The grace period of benign actors will soon end and human nature will take over - greed, power, corruption.

It will be fascinating to see how a technology designed from the ground up to resist these forces actually performs.

Storm's coming, hope BM will get the ship to harbour before it hits.
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: GaltReport on October 31, 2014, 04:10:12 pm
There are now 2 posts with several pages devoted to my character assassination.
As I wrote elsewhere I currently own only 10 million BTS and nothing else. I
bought in at 60 million. While this has been happening I've lost 50% of my life
savings because I bet all on BTS. That doesn't disturb me though, I knew what I
was getting into. Being publicly attacked like this, on the other hand, is
seriously not fun.

I hope you guys one day realize what you have done and how it would feel if
this was done to you. I guess it is in vain, though, you will simply dismiss
this as me being "manipulative".
... it is in fact quite offensive to tell someone you
don't know in person, and learn about 3 weeks ago .. to tell that he should
quit his job to work on a highly speculative and risky business while having a
family to feed!! You just CANT do that
.....

I agree with this and it bothers me maybe the most.  It's indicative of an irresponsible person at best and maybe pathological at worst (demonstrating a lack of concern for the consequences of one's words/actions on other people...lack of empathy...people are just objects to be manipulated to achieve one's goals). 

I don't care how much many anyone has.  Character counts.

But as Fuzzy said, people here are tired.  I agree and will try to stick to my own recommendation for arms-length relationships.
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: Rune on October 31, 2014, 04:31:02 pm
Rune - I think if you removed some of your rhetoric and bluster from the forum, and stuck to concise, practical posts about the topics at hand, it would go a long way to improving your reputation with some of the members.

Just my two BTS.

Right. I guess I'm just not able to communicate normally.

@fuzzy regarding the employment thing, I now realize it could be seen wrong and offensive, and for that I am sorry. It literally didn't occur to me before. I come from a privileged position where I have always been lucky and have never had to be careful about throwing myself at whatever I wanted. I failed to understand not everyone sees it this way, and I'm sorry for not taking that into consideration.
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: fuzzy on October 31, 2014, 04:35:11 pm
Rune - I think if you removed some of your rhetoric and bluster from the forum, and stuck to concise, practical posts about the topics at hand, it would go a long way to improving your reputation with some of the members.

Just my two BTS.

Right. I guess I'm just not able to communicate normally.

@fuzzy regarding the employment thing, I now realize it could be seen wrong and offensive, and for that I am sorry. It literally didn't occur to me before. I come from a privileged position where I have always been lucky and have never had to be careful about throwing myself at whatever I wanted. I failed to understand not everyone sees it this way, and I'm sorry for not taking that into consideration.

/hug
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: xeroc on October 31, 2014, 04:36:42 pm
Rune - I think if you removed some of your rhetoric and bluster from the forum, and stuck to concise, practical posts about the topics at hand, it would go a long way to improving your reputation with some of the members.

Just my two BTS.

Right. I guess I'm just not able to communicate normally.

@fuzzy regarding the employment thing, I now realize it could be seen wrong and offensive, and for that I am sorry. It literally didn't occur to me before. I come from a privileged position where I have always been lucky and have never had to be careful about throwing myself at whatever I wanted. I failed to understand not everyone sees it this way, and I'm sorry for not taking that into consideration.

/hug
+5% +5%

Let's close this topic quickly and go back to being productive :)
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: zerosum on November 01, 2014, 01:07:02 am
You have to judge and accuse to protect people.  It is a sad fact.  trust everyone is the naive sucker's creed. 

Interesting! I read the posts 3 times. Made triple sure it did not say my name as an author. Slept over it, checked again...still showed the same author, distinctly different personality in my experience. 

Can I have your permission to use it in my signature, please?
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: Gentso1 on November 01, 2014, 06:02:20 pm
lol

Day's of our lives for crypto.


Glad this was brought out
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: Empirical1.1 on November 01, 2014, 06:18:09 pm
lol

Day's of our lives for crypto.


Glad this was brought out

 +5%
Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: G1ng3rBr34dM4n on November 01, 2014, 06:52:09 pm
Glad to see this resolved. 

Hat tip to Fuzzy for maintaining your integrity.  To publicly voice your concerns about this particular ambiguous situation speaks volumes about your character.  It further reinforces the perception of you I've pieced together over this past year.  Thank you for continuing to be transparent.

To go full circle back to the OP title, I'm with merockstar on this topic.  I think groups will naturally form in order to address the numerous functions of the job description of a delegate.  It's neither bad nor good, it just is.

Rune - I like you. I can tell by your posts you understand damn well the potential.  Glad to have you part of the community.


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Title: Re: The Case for Delegates as Multi-Person Cooperatives
Post by: fuzzy on November 01, 2014, 08:41:50 pm
Glad to see this resolved. 

Hat tip to Fuzzy for maintaining your integrity.  To publicly voice your concerns about this particular ambiguous situation speaks volumes about your character.  It further reinforces the perception of you I've pieced together over this past year.  Thank you for continuing to be transparent.

To go full circle back to the OP title, I'm with merockstar on this topic.  I think groups will naturally form in order to address the numerous functions of the job description of a delegate.  It's neither bad nor good, it just is.

Rune - I like you. I can tell by your posts you understand damn well the potential.  Glad to have you part of the community.


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 +5%


lol

Day's of our lives for crypto.


Glad this was brought out

It is always days of our lives unfortunately.  When people's hard earned money is on the line and I am volunteering to help keep people's faith in a project with one of the few legitimate devs teams out there, I feel it is my obligation to inform.  I have far less in this game than most here, I would argue, so it should be obvious my passion for something that actually changes the world for the better is what drives me.  If I cannot help change the world for the better...I will be leaving very shortly figuring it out.   :/


Just to let you all know, however, I consider this a closed matter and will no longer be posting to this thread.