tldr: Keep doing what you are doing on the coding side of things, let your marketing team design logos and brand you, and get the heck out of the forums, you are freaking us all out.
I appreciate your perspective.
We have often asked ourselves the same thing.
(And are trying to discipline ourselves enough to properly vet Big Announcements.)
But this forum is one of our most precious resources. Our crown jewels.
It is how we stay in touch with the street and see things we would otherwise miss.
If we were a mere alt coin shooting for short term gains,
what you suggest would make absolute sense.
But,
while a nice steady growing market cap is a plus,
it is not our overriding objective.
Our objective is to get it right
(and change the world).
The people who will power our market cap to the moon do not read this forum.
(I'm not sure they read at all.)
We are not marketing to the other tribes in the crypto community.
Those who are objective and worthy will find us all by themselves.
"Investors" who come here and quickly freak out at our discussions
are not worthy of participating in our success.
People who come here and put in the effort
will gain insights that serious investors only dream of.
They are the ones who earn
Knowledge and Understanding.
The Ultimate Proof of Work.
They are the investors we want to continue to serve.
They are the ones worthy to ride with us on the ultimate ascent.:)
Fyi, I did not come here and "quickly freak out." I have been reading almost all posts on here for several months now. I have been patiently waiting for you all to realize that the freedom of speech Jcalfee speaks of is a great right for our country, but that doesn't mean that thoughts and ideas translate well in text, in forum threads, etc. How many times have you typed someone something and they get the completely wrong idea? No facial expressions, no voice inflections, and absolutely anything tongue in cheek or sarcastic is almost undetectable in text and is usually either mis interpreted or at minimum sending mixed messages.
Again, I believe in all of you, I will continue to invest, hold my investments, and hope that you will think that I am worthy enough to be here and see this venture rise to success despite my strong opinion that the forum acts more like a stumbling block for the ascent of the company rather that a benefit.
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As you might know Stan, your style is, 85% of the time, too pom-pom for my taste...
But that post was GREAT! +5% +5% +5%
PS
On this note, I am moving this thread to the main discussion.
...but the center alignment throws me off every time.
But this forum is one of our most precious resources. Our crown jewels.
It is how we stay in touch with the street and see things we would otherwise miss.
[...]
Our objective is to get it right
(and change the world).
[...]
"Investors" who come here and quickly freak out at our discussions
are not worthy of participating in our success.
People who come here and put in the effort
will gain insights that serious investors only dream of.
They are the ones who earn
Knowledge and Understanding.
The Ultimate Proof of Work.
They are the investors we want to continue to serve.
They are the ones worthy to ride with us on the ultimate ascent.
Bitshares is freedom enabling technology and that includes Freedom of speech....
Our objective is to get it right
(and change the world)
I swear, this forum will be the death of Bitshares. No one in their right mind posts business ideas and possible directions that the company could go on a public forum! If you guys don't start yesterday keeping your immature ideas to yourselves until they are 98% ready to be unveiled and pump up the BTSX community, you are killing the BTSX community.
Investor 101 says that uncertainty in an investment will drive off any investor with half a brain. All this forum does is bring daily confusion and uncertainty to the community and to the rest of the world that are directed here looking for answers. Unfortunately when they get here they find even more questions surrounded by random discussion regarding "what do you think the company should do this time?" followed by off-the-cuff proposals from the CEO, random ideas, and unfiltered suggestions from other seemingly BTSX gurus from the developer team.
MY PROPOSAL ( obviously fueled by anger and dissapointment):
CEO and Devs need to log off of this forum, leave one person here to assist newbies with technical questions, and that's it. Keep all of your proposals for changes, mergers, etc. Off line until they are heavily scrubbed ans finalized, and can be presented to the team in a positive, in a matter of fact manner, and as exciting upgrades and positive future aspects of this whole thing that will give current investors and newbies confidence that a group of computer geeks can in fact erect one of the best, most advanced technologically based companies of our time.
I am a strong believer in all of you. I own a decent amount of BTSX. I believe in Dan Larimer. I want to see you guys take over crypto and continue pushing the limits with your amazing ideas and radical thinking.
tldr: Keep doing what you are doing on the coding side of things, let your marketing team design logos and brand you, and get the heck out of the forums, you are freaking us all out.
Fyi, I did not come here and "quickly freak out." I have been reading almost all posts on here for several months now. I have been patiently waiting for you all to realize that the freedom of speech Jcalfee speaks of is a great right for our country, but that doesn't mean that thoughts and ideas translate well in text, in forum threads, etc. How many times have you typed someone something and they get the completely wrong idea? No facial expressions, no voice inflections, and absolutely anything tongue in cheek or sarcastic is almost undetectable in text and is usually either mis interpreted or at minimum sending mixed messages.
Again, I believe in all of you, I will continue to invest, hold my investments, and hope that you will think that I am worthy enough to be here and see this venture rise to success despite my strong opinion that the forum acts more like a stumbling block for the ascent of the company rather that a benefit.
Fyi, I did not come here and "quickly freak out." I have been reading almost all posts on here for several months now. I have been patiently waiting for you all to realize that the freedom of speech Jcalfee speaks of is a great right for our country, but that doesn't mean that thoughts and ideas translate well in text, in forum threads, etc. How many times have you typed someone something and they get the completely wrong idea? No facial expressions, no voice inflections, and absolutely anything tongue in cheek or sarcastic is almost undetectable in text and is usually either mis interpreted or at minimum sending mixed messages.
Again, I believe in all of you, I will continue to invest, hold my investments, and hope that you will think that I am worthy enough to be here and see this venture rise to success despite my strong opinion that the forum acts more like a stumbling block for the ascent of the company rather that a benefit.
Did you know that we have a Mumble Server available at all times for anyone in the community to use as they see fit? This is something worth considering as You are 100% correct that written words can very easily be misunderstood or mistranslated. Vocal communication, however, brings a 3rd dimension to speech that cannot be overlooked (though often is by far too many).
You didn't get it, sir. The openness that you criticize is precisely why most people here believe in BitShares.+5%tldr: Keep doing what you are doing on the coding side of things, let your marketing team design logos and brand you, and get the heck out of the forums, you are freaking us all out.
Bitshares only works because of its mandatory transparency. You cannot be elected as a delegate without being almost 100% transparent and public about all the work you do. Besides, we only really have one feature that matters, and that is the paid delegates. The only thing we need to worry about is to grow our network before any self-funding competitor comes online. If we can attain significant network effect before then, then it will not possible for a competitor to beat us no matter what, because we will always be able to copy any competetive advantages that they innovate.
Bitshares only works because of its mandatory transparency. You cannot be elected as a delegate without being almost 100% transparent and public about all the work you do. Besides, we only really have one feature that matters, and that is the paid delegates. The only thing we need to worry about is to grow our network before any self-funding competitor comes online. If we can attain significant network effect before then, then it will not possible for a competitor to beat us no matter what, because we will always be able to copy any competetive advantages that they innovate.