we fully understand DVS .
We just don't understand why people keep saying "we never said 11.05 was supposed to snapshot for devshares " .
Because , they did said it .
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=10608.0
read the bottom of the OP , then you'll know what kind of issue we're talking about here .
This is getting to be a fun way to spend Christmas.
Who, exactly, said that "we never said"? This is one of scores of manufactured promises and quotes in this thread. "We bought them out." is another one. No, we did an almost normal airdrop on them. "Buying them out" was a metaphorical concept that failed to reach consensus.
I never say "we never said" because I could easily be wrong. I do not remember half of what I said even yesterday. (We interact here informally a lot. Perhaps we should stop?) Instead I always ask, "show me the link so we can look at it in context."
So lets look at the context. You have quoted something from a thread marked [DRAFT].
It is not possible for a promise to appear in something marked [DRAFT]
Drafts are there to show the language we are considering and are open for comment and subject to change.
Neither is it possible for a promise to appear in a casual post where we may get sloppy in our wording. There are demands on our time and we do our best to stop by frequently and respond to posts in the few minutes we scrape together between other tasks. We can't take the time to proof read and dwell on the possible misinterpretations of each casual post. The alternative is to drastically curtail our interactions with everyone to just what has been reviewed by lawyers, marketeers, and public relations specialists. No one wants that.
Later in that same thread we have:
This newsletter was our official announcement and explanation of what we were going to do after proposing several ideas and drafts in the preceding week. It shows everything that made the cut and tries to explain our reasoning. Everything else was either rejected or still under discussion.
Most of the things people "know" are things that someone else has incorrectly asserted as facts taken out of context from some casually-stated preliminary draft straw man proposal seeking feedback from the community. In this case our draft concept was 40/40/20, with AGS and PTS getting the lion's share. BTS got 20% in the first proposal, not 100% like some have been trying to claim. After discussing this concept with the Devs and considering other feedback for more than a month, we tweaked the percentages to "just make them all the same" and chose the December 14 snapshot as representing a potentially larger mix of users. We reserve the right to do what we think is best for the product we are releasing.
Our pattern has always been: float one or more proposals, listen to discussions, refine our position and formally post it. That has been done in this case, as always. And there is another pattern that also continues: cherry pick something out of context that we have said during the discussion phase and represent it as a "promise" to stir up anger which winds up damaging everyone's stake and hurting the whole community.
In the future, perhaps we should add
double asterisks to the [**DRAFT**] banner to help make sure it is not mistaken for a promise.
I'm sure that will work just as well as all our other attempts in the past.