350M votes for marketing delegates WTF

[DMo09]

Only referring to the delegate voting system in general:

Have we ever considered the pros and cons of vote expiration dates, say 365 days or so? Or maybe losing a percentage of that person's vote over time unless continuously reaffirmed?

Like voting a delegate into a term in office?

That might keep people more active...

[bobmaloney]

Only referring to the delegate voting system in general:

Have we ever considered the pros and cons of vote expiration dates, say 365 days or so? Or maybe losing a percentage of that person's vote over time unless continuously reaffirmed?

[mint chocolate chip]

Most of the marketing delegates have been doing nothing for months, especially since the BitShares 2.0 announcement in June. Usually anyone who brings up this topic (i.e. newmine, KenCode, myself ) receive lots of negativity because many of the marketing delegates are popular on this forum. For example, the two bitscape guys have 2 100% marketing delegate positions which have resulted in a total of 2 accounts sign-ups in 8.5 months, they haven't updated their website since April (maybe it is time to redirect the Bytemaster's Blog banner to the right link) and haven't produced the video from their April road trip, "Videos in Productions Coming Soon". These guys started off great with lots of promise like their cool store that accepts smartcoins, a website, a blog and community involvement, but it is just that they are like other marketing delegates that just were never really worried about dropping out of the top 101 and so they naturally did less and less.

[Riverhead]

-argentina-marketing.matt608: 369M for his 100% delegate. Its hopeless, they save more in toilet paper than BitUSD.
-marketing.methodx: 355M votes - didnt he get bored and move onto his other business interests?
-market.cn.group101: 613M votes - they are "evangelizing" in China. The member that proposed that delegate has a grand total of 8 posts https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,13226.0.html He obviously got elected and pissed off.

Are we all just too apathetic to fire people?

Also, do delegates have to reapply for their 100% positions in BTS 2.0, so we can finally trim some fat?

I am running marketing.methodx. 100% of funds go to market maker bots. 90% to bots controlled by me and 10% to bots controlled by Xeldal. While you'd have to dig pretty hard for it the ANN thread for this delegate was updated.

As others are saying though it's sort of a moot problem at this point as 2.0 will clear the slate.

[phillyguy]

Haven't heard much from Kenny C since he got elected either.

[fran2k]

-argentina-marketing.matt608: 369M for his 100% delegate. Its hopeless, they save more in toilet paper than BitUSD.
-marketing.methodx: 355M votes - didnt he get bored and move onto his other business interests?
-market.cn.group101: 613M votes - they are "evangelizing" in China. The member that proposed that delegate has a grand total of 8 posts https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,13226.0.html He obviously got elected and pissed off.

Are we all just too apathetic to fire people?

Also, do delegates have to reapply for their 100% positions in BTS 2.0, so we can finally trim some fat?

We are well aware that marketing delegates will become obsolete with BTS 2.0 referral system, until that we still have goals.

Please read our thread were we post our work done.

We run the biggest Bitshares meetup group and the Bitshares team always is present in the monthly Bitcoin meetups, where the Argentinian one is in the top ten worldwide. There we always do bitshares paperwallets giveaways with tri-folds and often talks about Bitshares, next one coming this Friday.

If you have any question and/or suggestion will be welcome in our thread.

[Akado]

-argentina-marketing.matt608: 369M for his 100% delegate. Its hopeless, they save more in toilet paper than BitUSD.
-marketing.methodx: 355M votes - didnt he get bored and move onto his other business interests?
-market.cn.group101: 613M votes - they are "evangelizing" in China. The member that proposed that delegate has a grand total of 8 posts https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,13226.0.html He obviously got elected and pissed off.

Are we all just too apathetic to fire people?

Also, do delegates have to reapply for their 100% positions in BTS 2.0, so we can finally trim some fat?

Multiple people have alerted for this already. The answer I've seen is BTS 2.0 will eliminate the need for marketing people so I guess we can only wait. I don't know if they are all useless but I believe someone is getting 100% pay just to scratch them in front of the pc.

[Ander]

-argentina-marketing.matt608: 369M for his 100% delegate. Its hopeless, they save more in toilet paper than BitUSD.
-marketing.methodx: 355M votes - didnt he get bored and move onto his other business interests?
-market.cn.group101: 613M votes - they are "evangelizing" in China. The member that proposed that delegate has a grand total of 8 posts https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,13226.0.html He obviously got elected and pissed off.

Are we all just too apathetic to fire people?

Also, do delegates have to reapply for their 100% positions in BTS 2.0, so we can finally trim some fat?

In 2.0 no workers will be making any BTS until we elect them to do a project.  So all of these delegates people are bitching about will be making 0 again unless they get re-elected to do something (and I expect people are not going to want to vote for marketing delegates, because the expectation is marketers can make money off referrals if they do well).

We're probably going to be seeing the core dev team proposals get elected and get BTS, and probably a few other dev projects, and not much else.  I expect inflation rate to drop some.

[speedy]

-argentina-marketing.matt608: 369M for his 100% delegate. Its hopeless, they save more in toilet paper than BitUSD.
-marketing.methodx: 355M votes - didnt he get bored and move onto his other business interests?
-market.cn.group101: 613M votes - they are "evangelizing" in China. The member that proposed that delegate has a grand total of 8 posts https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,13226.0.html He obviously got elected and pissed off.

Are we all just too apathetic to fire people?

Also, do delegates have to reapply for their 100% positions in BTS 2.0, so we can finally trim some fat?