This is better. Hangout recordings and transcripts are probably really valuable to some people. But this has also the problem of not having much really original content. No blog posts that are thoughtfully written and give "whoa, this is really good stuff, I have to link this to all my friends!" feelings to people.
"Ok, here is some straight and honest feedback:"This community has about 5-10 members that will consistently click and upvote a post on reddit.
This community has about 3-5 members that will simply click retweet a tweet.
This community has 1-2 members that will Plus1 a Google+ post.
OC cost $ or time, and this community rarely (if ever) donates to people/groups trying to promote BitShares, mostly out of their own pocket(s).
Hangout transcripts cost $60 - $120 USD each or days of time and transcripts
are OC, in the sense that you don't see them anywhere else, except the one other site I posted them to (on my time) after paying for them out of my own pocket.
I am very thankful for the Brownie Points from Dan via fuzzy that covered a small portion of my expenses to do so and the donations from around 10 community members from time to time after that supplemental funding ended, but that minimal support too has ended for the most part.
The point is, OC is expensive over time and the community by and large does not help promote this OC or for the most part any post about BitShares by simply clicking a link/button, much less offer any supplemental monetary support for these contributions and/or time.
But Tuck, what about a Worker Proposal?
Yeah, that was brought up with "BitShares News" a few weeks ago but I discouraged them from persuing one due to the communities attitude towards workers (see various threads on this forum) and the lack of support shown for anyone attempting to market BitShares.
There's plenty of criticism dished out (see various post by community members on this forum), but very little support for the time given by those trying to help on the BitShares marketing front.
And these people trying to market BitShares asked for nothing up front (like some others who were paid handsomely and ran <cough>), but instead did the work then hoped even a few people would simply upvote/retweet or Gawd forbid donate for their time and effort.
That simply has not happened on a worthwhile scale or anywhere close to it.
Take a gander at the Ethereum subreddit and see how many upvotes a simple post gets.
Now go compare that to the most upvoted post of all time on the BitShares subreddit.
Do you see where I'm going with this?
I think you do, so I won't bother spelling it out (even though part of me wants to, just to rub it in with some salt).
In my opinion (which has had about 9 months of trying to market BitShares to think it over) ultimately the lack of community participation (a simple upvote, retweet, Plus1, etc), complaining and negative feedback instead of positive support will pretty much kill off any efforts to market BitShares by people trying to do so on their own time or own $.
Any BitShares marketing in the future will most likely come from paid articles (see CCEDK), which have far less effect on the general public ... because it's a paid article and everyone knows it.
The days of people giving up their time and money to promote BitShares from their heart is currently on life support and no one's visiting them in ICU.
There are no flowers by their bedside, no teddy bears and no cards with well wishes ... just
complaints and negative feedback telling them how they should have done more for the rest of you while they lay on their death bed.
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