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Title: OmniBazaar: social-consensus-rejecting BTS fork
Post by: biophil on November 07, 2014, 01:41:14 pm
Hey folks, I'm here to snitch on a new crypto project, OmniBazaar/OmniCoin that announced on Bitcointalk a couple weeks ago that is openly forking BitShares to use TITAN and DPOS. They're trying to set up some kind of decentralized ebay, I gather. Their coin has one of these weird distribution models where they just give coins away for free. Despite this, they are not airdropping to AGS/PTS.

If you're someone who cares about this, throw some comments at their ANN thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=835575.0
Title: Re: OmniBazaar: social-consensus-rejecting BTS fork
Post by: bytemaster on November 07, 2014, 02:05:15 pm
Lol.  Best of luck to them. 
Title: Re: OmniBazaar: social-consensus-rejecting BTS fork
Post by: testz on November 08, 2014, 08:03:39 am
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Despite this, they are not airdropping to AGS/PTS.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=835575.msg9363650#msg9363650

Honor AGS and PTS,or BTS?

 ???

Yes. It's no secret that we are copying BTSX. (References to DPoS and TITAN are a dead give-away to anyone who knows BTSX.) But, we are also adding a few important features. Of course, OmniCoin will be open-source. So BTSX will be able to benefit from our work, just as we are benefitting from theirs.

Best,
Rick
Title: Re: OmniBazaar: social-consensus-rejecting BTS fork
Post by: zerosum on November 08, 2014, 08:43:57 am
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Despite this, they are not airdropping to AGS/PTS.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=835575.msg9363650#msg9363650

Honor AGS and PTS,or BTS?

 ???

Yes. It's no secret that we are copying BTSX. (References to DPoS and TITAN are a dead give-away to anyone who knows BTSX.) But, we are also adding a few important features. Of course, OmniCoin will be open-source. So BTSX will be able to benefit from our work, just as we are benefitting from theirs.

Best,
Rick

Everything should be tried...in this grand experiment of ours.

Bluntly disregarding the social consensus .... checked! 
Title: Re: OmniBazaar: social-consensus-rejecting BTS fork
Post by: CLains on November 08, 2014, 09:35:58 am
Try all they want. I gave them a shit review.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=835575.msg9476833#msg9476833
Title: Re: OmniBazaar: social-consensus-rejecting BTS fork
Post by: Shentist on November 08, 2014, 09:51:05 am
it is a good promo thread for us :D
Title: Re: OmniBazaar: social-consensus-rejecting BTS fork
Post by: biophil on November 09, 2014, 09:34:26 pm
Try all they want. I gave them a shit review.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=835575.msg9476833#msg9476833

I smiled when I saw your review :)
Title: Re: OmniBazaar: social-consensus-rejecting BTS fork
Post by: xeroc on November 09, 2014, 10:03:38 pm
Try all they want. I gave them a shit review.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=835575.msg9476833#msg9476833
Good job .. nicely written +5%
Title: Re: OmniBazaar: social-consensus-rejecting BTS fork
Post by: onceuponatime on November 09, 2014, 10:33:14 pm
Try all they want. I gave them a shit review.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=835575.msg9476833#msg9476833
Good job .. nicely written +5%

Hats off to Clains!!
Title: Re: OmniBazaar: social-consensus-rejecting BTS fork
Post by: donkeypong on November 09, 2014, 11:04:52 pm
We must blackball this, folks. I doubt it would succeed anyway, but as long as it does not honor this community by way of the social consensus, the project is dead in the water.
Title: Re: OmniBazaar: social-consensus-rejecting BTS fork
Post by: Akado on November 09, 2014, 11:45:07 pm
Honestly, I don't care much about it. It just bothers me that it barely makes reference to BitShares. It seems kind of disrespectful imo, not only to the devs but to the whole community.
Title: Re: OmniBazaar: social-consensus-rejecting BTS fork
Post by: ticklebiscuit on November 10, 2014, 12:16:36 am
Giv e them nothing.  Pay no attention or you are advertising for them.
Title: Re: OmniBazaar: social-consensus-rejecting BTS fork
Post by: JWF on November 10, 2014, 12:56:08 am
This is the natural progression of the crypto world.  An innovation is created, builds a presence, a following, then follows the copy cats. This is standard and expected. People have the right to "do their thing" but as long as we make it very apparent that there is no connection, other than code, from us than we should be able to move past these type of trolls.
Title: Re: OmniBazaar: social-consensus-rejecting BTS fork
Post by: ticklebiscuit on November 10, 2014, 03:42:37 pm
This is the natural progression of the crypto world.  An innovation is created, builds a presence, a following, then follows the copy cats. This is standard and expected. People have the right to "do their thing" but as long as we make it very apparent that there is no connection, other than code, from us than we should be able to move past these type of trolls.

No...you simply serve to alienate the community and make us all look like greedy biscuits.  Instead say nothing anf help make a clone of it.
Title: Re: OmniBazaar: social-consensus-rejecting BTS fork
Post by: sschechter on November 10, 2014, 09:43:32 pm
BTS fork? Guys, what are you talking about - look at the screenshots, its clearly a Java application! lololololololol
Title: Re: OmniBazaar: social-consensus-rejecting BTS fork
Post by: Vizzini on November 11, 2014, 01:53:53 am
(http://makeameme.org/media/created/everything-is-working.jpg)
Title: Re: OmniBazaar: social-consensus-rejecting BTS fork
Post by: 70231f697a2b3c2b on November 11, 2014, 02:36:29 am
I think there's an opportunity here.  Let's be supportive and provide honest and constructive feedback about the product and the ecosystem they are trying to create (or just ignore them if you want; that probably works, too).

If the project is successful, then it's a vital "reality check" for those of us who didn't think that a copycat DAC could get off the ground without honoring the social consensus.  And hey, the guy did say he's going to add some new features to the code; maybe he ends up producing something that can be applied to BTS.  At least he won't have any grounds to complain if/when his enhancements get copied over to the BTS codebase (:

But if OmniBazaar fails, then what better evidence of the virtues of the social consensus could you ask for than a project that was doomed from the start – despite all of the encouragement (or at least professional courtesy) from the BTS community – simply because the developers didn't honor the social consensus?  That all other things being equal, not honoring the social consensus is an Achilles Heel?
Title: Re: OmniBazaar: social-consensus-rejecting BTS fork
Post by: fran2k on December 04, 2014, 03:37:21 pm
Just trolling a bit ..

(edit: img link brokken)

(http://image.bayimg.com/3333ac2ec34abe49bf4e23ad172729fec2c0e7a1.jpg)
Title: Re: OmniBazaar: social-consensus-rejecting BTS fork
Post by: cass on December 04, 2014, 03:49:20 pm
commented ! Thx clains for your template^^
Title: Re: OmniBazaar: social-consensus-rejecting BTS fork
Post by: ticklebiscuit on December 07, 2014, 03:08:16 am
So funny you guys. You are supporting him by bumping his thread.