the question is: what can you offer that cannot be covered by the affiliate system?
Can the affiliate system support the efforts of Communities like Beyond Bitcoin?
I don't think it will even come close initially and won't for some time down the road.
It is my personal opinion that the BitShares ecosystem will suffer from the loss of such Communities that will not be able to support themselves on referrals or without donations, which rarely come in as it is.
These sort of decentralized Community marketing efforts will not last long without others either donating, people working for nothing or a mass influx of new users choosing to signup at their website.
But what is the likelihood of this when the new users see's big businesses advertising and offering things these small decentralized Community efforts cannot possibly match?
IMHO, small decentralized Community efforts appear to be at a big disadvantage when it comes to drawing referrals.
Sure they can get their friends and their friends friends, but that will only sustain them for so long. Can they get a random web surfer before the big businesses does? Not likely.
Those are just my thoughts and concerns and the reason why I would vote for "non-coders" Worker Proposals if they are providing quality BitShares content, like Beyond Bitcoin.
And afaict on the web, Beyond Bitcoin has been the biggest marketer of BitShares. Has that been reflected in the referral tally to date?
Nope. Not even near double digits from what I can tell.
I guess I'm just not able to see all the future users that are going to flock to BitShares on 10/13 and beyond to signup up via referral links. They don't exist, yet. But when they do, they will most likely choose to signup with some big business with shiny flashy gifs everywhere they go in crypto-land offering them "free xyz!" to signup with them, and that's cool. It's just why I don't think small Community efforts will be able to function for very long due to lack of referral funding.
So I'm basing all of this off of that premise. Don't take it as anti-BitShares, I'd feel this way about any cryptocurrency after 3 years of letdowns by many others. I'm very jaded.
I see the Worker Proposal as a way to keep these kind of quality Community efforts funded.
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Edit: Back on soapbox ...
And another thing, this is basically BitShares Radio we're talking about here!
Why would the BitShares Community not support a Worker Proposal for the only global Radio On the Internet show about BitShares??!!! When's the last time you were able to personally speak to Dan, outside of Beyond Bitcoins weekly Hangouts???