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Quote from: eagleeye on January 11, 2015, 06:34:36 amthe blog should just be its own delegate, vote yourself in that way it stays free in an unfree world.I predict that this would bring strong criticism. People would start arguing about centralization of voting power and delegates leading to use of propaganda.
the blog should just be its own delegate, vote yourself in that way it stays free in an unfree world.
Quote from: bytemaster on January 12, 2015, 10:53:31 pmThen I guess I shouldn't express my opinions on vaccinations Write a blog post on it (if you want)Id be interested to hear your thoughts on it.
Then I guess I shouldn't express my opinions on vaccinations
Quote from: arhag on January 13, 2015, 03:00:32 amThis brings up a good question: do we want the new bitshares.org to point directly to bytemaster's blog or do we want to copy a subset of the blog posts (the majority posts that do a really great job of explaining BitShares and what it is all about) to the "official" bitshares blog?Bytemaster has every right to freely express himself as he wishes on his own private blog. But it does concern me when we promote it to look official by putting it as THE replacement blog on bitshares.org and give it the URL bytemaster.bitshares.org.He's a renaissance man with lots of different interests. I think that's great, even if I don't agree with of all his opinions, and I wouldn't suggest he censor it. Maybe we can point to individual posts that are relevant and good?
This brings up a good question: do we want the new bitshares.org to point directly to bytemaster's blog or do we want to copy a subset of the blog posts (the majority posts that do a really great job of explaining BitShares and what it is all about) to the "official" bitshares blog?Bytemaster has every right to freely express himself as he wishes on his own private blog. But it does concern me when we promote it to look official by putting it as THE replacement blog on bitshares.org and give it the URL bytemaster.bitshares.org.
Quote from: bytemaster on January 12, 2015, 08:01:28 pmTo be fair, I stated that all I know is that "earthing will not HURT and might help". I don't believe EVERYTHING in every book I recommend, I mostly recommend them because I find it fascinating and worth looking into.What we are trying to say is that it is a bad move even if you were certain that it has positive health benefits. It makes the difference between wanting to point people to your blog vs wanting to point them at a select subset of your articles mirrored somewhere else.
To be fair, I stated that all I know is that "earthing will not HURT and might help". I don't believe EVERYTHING in every book I recommend, I mostly recommend them because I find it fascinating and worth looking into.
At first I had the same doubts.But wouldn't it be wrong to center everything about freedom and then hide your opinions because of fear how people will perceive you? Wouldn that proof, that we fail at achieving freedom even at such a basic level and yet we try at such a large scale?Quote from: delulo on January 12, 2015, 08:18:42 pmQuote from: bytemaster on January 12, 2015, 08:01:28 pmTo be fair, I stated that all I know is that "earthing will not HURT and might help". I don't believe EVERYTHING in every book I recommend, I mostly recommend them because I find it fascinating and worth looking into.I think this doesn't matter to those that want to form an opinion on you fast and not to those that seek a chance to denounce you/bitshares. This is a great opportunity to do denounce you/bitshares because it breaks a few norms that are shared by a vast majority of people especially if it comes to business and financial services (conservative realms which is reality up to now). In the end it's a philosophical question about intention or effect driven action. I personally think there is no contradiction.Is that a bad thing though? BitShares is all about breaking norms isn't it?The great vision we have is probably not compatible with many people's view on things, yet we shouldn't hide it.
Quote from: bytemaster on January 12, 2015, 08:01:28 pmTo be fair, I stated that all I know is that "earthing will not HURT and might help". I don't believe EVERYTHING in every book I recommend, I mostly recommend them because I find it fascinating and worth looking into.I think this doesn't matter to those that want to form an opinion on you fast and not to those that seek a chance to denounce you/bitshares. This is a great opportunity to do denounce you/bitshares because it breaks a few norms that are shared by a vast majority of people especially if it comes to business and financial services (conservative realms which is reality up to now). In the end it's a philosophical question about intention or effect driven action. I personally think there is no contradiction.
Quote from: delulo on January 12, 2015, 08:18:42 pmQuote from: bytemaster on January 12, 2015, 08:01:28 pmTo be fair, I stated that all I know is that "earthing will not HURT and might help". I don't believe EVERYTHING in every book I recommend, I mostly recommend them because I find it fascinating and worth looking into.I think this doesn't matter to those that want to form an opinion on you fast and not to those that seek a chance to denounce you/bitshares. This is a great opportunity to do denounce you/bitshares because it breaks a few norms that are shared by a vast majority of people especially if it comes to business and financial services (conservative realms which is reality up to now). In the end it's a philosophical question about intention or effect driven action. I personally think there is no contradiction.In my opinion, anyone who decides to use ad hominem attacks against BitShares based upon a view of a single founder is giving us free press and discrediting themselves.
Please stay far, far away from this topic... If you write about it keep it off of anything that promotes bitshares on the same page / is a subdomain of bitshares.org
Quote from: PotatoPeeler on January 12, 2015, 10:50:21 pmI'm surprised someone hasn't tried to make a Steve Jobs analogy. Earthing reflects poorly. Like the New Age and their crystals or Jenny McArthy and her war on vaccinations. SMHThen I guess I shouldn't express my opinions on vaccinations
I'm surprised someone hasn't tried to make a Steve Jobs analogy. Earthing reflects poorly. Like the New Age and their crystals or Jenny McArthy and her war on vaccinations. SMH
Hey bytemaster, I was reading through your recommendations and was intrigued that you picked sacred geometry. Out of curiosity have you come across Rodin Vortex based mathematics? It's very interesting math that you may enjoy following up on!Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Quote from: delulo on January 12, 2015, 09:14:34 amI enjoyed reading the list! It's also great for building trust because it is personal. Putting an anti-scientific book about earthing up there is maybe not the strongest indicator of a solid ("scientific") project. I don't have any clue about earthing! It may work. My point is just that someone that does a 5 minutes research (like I did) or just looks at the title of the book will get the impression that earthing is a product people are sold by pseudo science. So all I am saying is that it doesn't serve the purpose of giving the reader of your blog confidence in that BitShares works (meets "scientific" standards). Many people won't understand exactly how Bitshares works so they form an opinion based on little indicators like this and/or trust people who tell them that it is safe to store you money with it or not. Indeed, earthing has all the indicators of a pseudoscience, and I must say I'm disappointed this thing appeared on your reading list. Falling for scams doesn't inspire trust, and independently of whether earthing is a scam or not, it is definitively perceived as a scam by many.
I enjoyed reading the list! It's also great for building trust because it is personal. Putting an anti-scientific book about earthing up there is maybe not the strongest indicator of a solid ("scientific") project. I don't have any clue about earthing! It may work. My point is just that someone that does a 5 minutes research (like I did) or just looks at the title of the book will get the impression that earthing is a product people are sold by pseudo science. So all I am saying is that it doesn't serve the purpose of giving the reader of your blog confidence in that BitShares works (meets "scientific" standards). Many people won't understand exactly how Bitshares works so they form an opinion based on little indicators like this and/or trust people who tell them that it is safe to store you money with it or not.
Quote from: bytemaster on January 09, 2015, 06:39:11 amQuote from: Shentist on January 09, 2015, 06:25:15 amthe blog is great, but why you started to use adsense again? it looks like you want to sell me something.affiliatelinks on books is ok, but why adsense too? makes no sense.It is part of my plan to create a self-funding referral system. If I can generate revenue from traffic, then pass that revenue on to successful conversions to BitShares users then we can reach more people. Also, if there are no Ads then people suspect something else. I will probably create a blog post about my strategy in time. I don't like the ad based model of the Internet. Why not go with micropayments? Why use ads?
Quote from: Shentist on January 09, 2015, 06:25:15 amthe blog is great, but why you started to use adsense again? it looks like you want to sell me something.affiliatelinks on books is ok, but why adsense too? makes no sense.It is part of my plan to create a self-funding referral system. If I can generate revenue from traffic, then pass that revenue on to successful conversions to BitShares users then we can reach more people. Also, if there are no Ads then people suspect something else. I will probably create a blog post about my strategy in time.
the blog is great, but why you started to use adsense again? it looks like you want to sell me something.affiliatelinks on books is ok, but why adsense too? makes no sense.
This blog post has considerable basic spelling errors. Perhaps consider writing your article in a proper editor in paragraphs?
Right now about $55 for 3 weeks, but Ad Sense has only been there for 24 hours and has earned about $1... $30 per month. So at todays traffic levels it is a mere $100 per month; however, my plan is to grow the traffic to be 10 to 100x what it is getting right now which should ultimately produce $10,000 per month.
Quote from: btswildpig on January 09, 2015, 06:51:22 amQuote from: bytemaster on January 09, 2015, 06:39:11 amQuote from: Shentist on January 09, 2015, 06:25:15 amthe blog is great, but why you started to use adsense again? it looks like you want to sell me something.affiliatelinks on books is ok, but why adsense too? makes no sense.It is part of my plan to create a self-funding referral system. If I can generate revenue from traffic, then pass that revenue on to successful conversions to BitShares users then we can reach more people. Also, if there are no Ads then people suspect something else. I will probably create a blog post about my strategy in time. I wish I can create a referral program for English-Chinese translation service for your site . How much is the revenue from the current AD ?Right now about $55 for 3 weeks, but Ad Sense has only been there for 24 hours and has earned about $1... $30 per month. So at todays traffic levels it is a mere $100 per month; however, my plan is to grow the traffic to be 10 to 100x what it is getting right now which should ultimately produce $10,000 per month.
Quote from: bytemaster on January 09, 2015, 06:39:11 amQuote from: Shentist on January 09, 2015, 06:25:15 amthe blog is great, but why you started to use adsense again? it looks like you want to sell me something.affiliatelinks on books is ok, but why adsense too? makes no sense.It is part of my plan to create a self-funding referral system. If I can generate revenue from traffic, then pass that revenue on to successful conversions to BitShares users then we can reach more people. Also, if there are no Ads then people suspect something else. I will probably create a blog post about my strategy in time. I wish I can create a referral program for English-Chinese translation service for your site . How much is the revenue from the current AD ?