Thanks for the replies luckybit. I don't agree with you, but you communicate your ideas well and you're clearly passionate about your point of view.
You're talking about a DAC specific airdrop not general Bitshares right?
If it's DAC specific at least you can target communities who are interested in and create a buzz around a specific DAC.
It's an airdrop for everything except Bitshares. Bitshares cannot be diluted and I suggested virtual mining as a way to distribute Bitshares to the investors and miners while increasing buy support (similar to Blackcoin).
I think only Bitshares X and its' descendants can't be diluted. Future Bitshares DAC's can still choose to airdrop I think?
I'm not against Stan's option of a third group so that our future DAC strategic partners at least have the freedom of choice...
Also, AGS is designed to be a targeted group of proven patron donors. Once developers figure out that this is a "mailing list" of people they want to court as supporters, it will be the most valuable thing to honor. If you mix in people who are not donors, you dilute the demographic and therefore harm the "pulling power" of those who did donate.
Recall that PTS is designed to be a targeted "mailing list" of proven saver-supporters who won't grab and dump.
Now, if someone created a third "mailing list" proto-coin, separate from PTS and AGS, that honored a mix of the first-generation industry leaders, then future snapshots would have the option to attract them with their own 10% if they so desired. Maybe it would be called "BitShares POS" and make it a nice neutral introduction to profitable DPOS block-chains for everybody.
Personally I think strategic partners looking to collaborate with Bitshares aren't joining to get access to a large unfocused community of millions that were air-dropped free equity. If they want that they can do it themselves with a few clicks of a mouse.
They want access to the Bitshares DAC delivery machine, which is building the best talent (Bytemaster & friends) & is doing the opposite of your strategy - funnelling out of that community of millions - the best few thousand DAC savvy supporters - who have proved it with an investment of their capital/time/work in PTS & AGS.
A new developer/small community/industry partner won't have this, so it's in their interest to join Bitshares.
Bitshares! what is your profession? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIr8u0j08gUWhy dilute our DAC savvy core & defeat the purpose of creating it, when we can always partner with other communities via strategic DAC specific airdrops when it's too our advantage?
You seem to think you need a community of millions to launch a DAC. No, you need marketing, talent & a supportive community large enough so that the initial equity is well & fairly distributed & no overly large shareholders can dump the price. (Where NXT & Ripple failed for eg. IMO.) So far evidence has also shown that air-dropees dump all over the price, exactly what a DAC launch doesn't want. (If you do a test and prove otherwise I may change my mind.) The community of millions will be built around specific DAC's depending on their popularity.
It's taken Bitshares a lot of hard work to build the thousands strong distributed core (Which is still growing) and it is something that larger unfocused groups can't compete with. They can only fork and airdrop close to 100% which so far has shown doesn't build a new community and even 50% airdrops result in 99% avg. shareholder losses from the highs. They also can't maintain and develop much either.
Anyway that's probably the last I'lll say on the subject for a bit. I'll support whatever the community decides.