I just noticed that Brownie points are now a sharedrop target and might be given other benefits. This is not really a big deal on its own, but it points to something which I think is very important. Every other week the rules of the game change around here, or perhaps to put it more accurately the nature of the value proposition changes. It has been happening constantly, and it is very annoying and off-putting.
You can't build a castle on shifting sands.
If Bitshares wants to draw people in and get people involved and encourage people to build on it, then the one single most important thing those people need is to have some confidence that they won't have the rug pulled out from under their feet by the powers that be.
Personally I would have no confidence in building anything to do with Bitshares, because by the time it was completed things would have changed so much it would probably be unprofitable or impossible.
Please try to make just one damn thing work (commercially speaking) before screwing it off to go and make something else.
Yep. Every single day we get up and think, "How can we add to the ecosystem value proposition?"
I hate it when that happens!
Obviously you don't take this seriously. But let me give you another example from my personal; experience.
I liked the idea of earning interest on BitAssets and thought much more could be done to market this. I started writing articles, published a couple, and was preparing a marketing site focussed especially on BitGold. Before I could actually do anything the rules of the game changed and interest was removed.
Wasting my time may not be a big deal, but it is indicative and I'm sure I'm not alone in this kind of experience.
You can't have a decentralized business if you keep changing fundamentals. Yes, you may be able to keep coming up with changes that will somehow improve things, but if you do then you will always be still at ground zero with a new product, nothing built around it, and few users / supporters / workers do anything useful.