As a newbie myself it took me a few hours to figure it all out. Its extremely confusing and if 3rd parties start releasing share drops to PTS then it would hurt BTS in the long run.

I think the Chinese community has abandoned BTS but are sticking with PTS. (Not all but some)

I am only in favor of funds paid for by BTS dilution to go towards creating better documentation or reworking the codebase (the "toolkit") to make it more modular, easy-to-use, whatever if it helps improve the pace of development on the main BitShares DAC, for example by making the job of the existing devs easier or making the process of bringing in new devs to work on BitShares easier. The fact that this would likely have the side effect of making it easier for third-party devs to create forks is irrelevant to me.

However, I do not support paying via BTS dilution for any effort that just helps third-party devs work on forks but does not at all help devs working on the main BitShares DAC. I would like to focus all efforts paid for by BTS holders to first go towards maximizing the value of BTS and getting us the critical network effect we need to survive against existential threats before focusing on making it easier to decentralize this ecosystem even more than it already is by promoting the creation of many different competing DACs (the fact that the code is open source means it is already easy enough to achieve this level of decentralization as evidenced by various third-party DAC proposals that have been popping up such as alphaBar's DPOS-based PTS DAC and more recently the Rand Paul Coin fork of BitShares X).

Quote from: zhao150 on October 30, 2014, 01:23:55 pm

3i should do DPOS,not others
not AlphaBar.
not me.

The whole point of the consolidation/merger is that bytemaster and 3i can't do everything, and can't answer to everyone.  If they fixed PTS and made it what we want, then they'd be neglecting BTSX, and a different group of shareholders would get loud.  PTS and BTSX in some regards, are in direct competition with each other.  The consolidation is an effort made so that all incentives can be aligned in the future.  Its unfortunate that this decision couldn't please anybody, but look at it this way - the people who got burned today would eventually get neglected in the future.  The same group would be demanding for bytemasters time and attention, and the only way to give that would be to neglect a different project.  We want to compete with the world, not the existing community, because its still not big enough.