Having 100% controlled by i3 would be a disaster
This seems really harsh. I'm not sure where you are coming from here. People seem to think the marketing hasn't done much but we haven't really had anything to market yet. It's not like I3 has blown through a lot of money. I think there may be a shift as the first products are released and AGS wraps up.
There are also risks to handing out a ton of money to "the community" because there's not really a fair way to do that.
My take:
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=4648.msg59090#msg59090
Agent86 -- sometimes I think you talk like I3's mom.
I think the balance of 350k PTS should be burned. If not, the market may finally lose faith in everything I3 has been doing. If PTS drops another 40%, the crash in value will scare off new investment and your best developers could walk away.
I just get frustrated with people who can't understand what's going on and accuse I3 of acting like scammers when they are not.
Maybe you are right that the market won't like us to use the PTS as a community fund for marketing, give aways, or promotion. But maybe they will love it and we can find a way to spend it to drive lots of new people to bitshares.
Stan has already said if there is conflict and the forum is split, the PTS will most likely be burned/mapped out of PTS2.
They were treating these as community funds; they solicited the community for input on how to spend them to drive value for everyone. Instead people called them scammers and people are acting like Stan wants to sell them and get a Bentley.
If we burn them we burn them, and if you think this gives you the best ROI than make that case and tell us why. But if you think I3 is dishonest why are you even invested at all?
Perhaps burning them gives you the best ROI, perhaps it's a missed opportunity and it will cost you. That is the decision here. And we are all in the same boat! We sink or soar as a community.
Ok, maybe there is a small difference between those who are primarily in AGS vs PTS but for the most part we are all in the same boat and I3 is in the boat with us, and they built the boat, we all want this to be huge.
Full disclosure, I don't have much sympathy for people in PTS freaking out about not getting a 15% bump in stake when they can go get a much larger return by donating to AGS.
I agree that if we don't use them carefully they would be better off burned. But I also have an open mind to the possibilities