Are we intentionally looking for reasons to push people away from us? I just don't understand the approach. Whether true or not, we look desperate and causes people like Toast to apologize in the NuBits forum. Mixed messages cause investors to look for the door.
Calling a spade a spade is not necessarily a bad thing.
We do this all the time with the current Federal Reserve system so why shouldn't we warn newbies and interested individuals of potentially dangerous investments? Admittedly this is not a great strategy for short term adoption, but in the long term when these points are proven true the bitshares community will be able to say "guess what we said on
this day--if you would have listened, you would not be hurt."
I actually posted this in the cryptocurrency collector's club and got into a debate over it. There were 3 people who asked how they could buy bitshares...
We should NEVER be afraid to tell the truth--especially in times when it is not popular. Once we start walking the path of "political correctness" we start walking away from the philosophy of truly changing the current paradigm. I think the trick is having an appropriate mix of Positive and Negative reviews/posts...