Yea so?
Just because there's a poll doesn't mean it has to happen.
At least one is not over-dramatising. Consider this as an indicator to change the design.
As for "over dramatizing" bro...let me just post my comment to you via pm before this started apparently blowing up. Since you deemed in unimportant to even respond to my pm much less change the post accordingly, you have forced my hand on this
@fav.
To all those who want to see a little bit of a window into why i'm beginning to question fav's intentions here:
please read https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,20584.msg265594.html#msg265594
I'm not lobbying against the bot, it's just that many people are complaining about how its run currently.
It comes across that way as you didn't really post anything positive about the bot but only the negatives. Now if you had said something to the effect of:
"Here are the Pros as I see it"
and then
"Here are the Cons as I see it"
Then I can agree you are not lobbying against it. However, your first post in that thread comes across as you are lobbying against it...and it is pretty apparent because I was notified by others who were concerned you were.
So maybe it is in order to change the initial post so those reading it are not biased by a primarily negative statement that misses all the value propositions of the bot? This should be pretty obvious fav...
So you are either incapable of satisfactorily running polls (have you never heard of bias?? have you ever taken a statistics class?)
Or you have an agenda. I noticed you were plenty busy commenting elsewhere so it isn't like you were not on the forums and I can pretty much guarantee you saw it.
Hilariously
because you biased the poll (not to mention naming it completely incorrectly for your "stated purposes" by telling everyone what you thought and FAILING to even cover the good aspects (aka pros and cons?), when I first saw it...it looked pretty damned certain that the bot was dead.
It was 17 for and 3 against.
Then I spoke up and began protecting all we have worked so hard for to show people what you
refused to show
even after I asked you to. Now that you can see because I fought back and showed people another side, your poll has
failed at destroying it.
Now with that all said. Let me say one final thing. Let me give you a piece of advice. If you wanted to really "help" the bot become something people wanted...you would have approached it in one of the following ways:
1) Post a thread asking if people are having issues with the bot in its current iteration (you know...because projects should go through it and constantly aim to improve based on user feedback). THEN you could have compiled alllllll those questions and concerns and put them in a succinct list and posted a poll asking if these should be changed or fixed in some way...and ask for feedback as to HOW.
2) Go to
the following open thread and post comments and concerns there.
The frustration I feel has nothing to do with the bot...and everything to do with how you approached it (and ignored my pleas to change the context to provide something closer to a actual representative dataset). Also, I am beginning to get frustrated that some community members seem to think they have a grasp on what is valuable and what isn't. I have news for them...
none of you (including myself) know if bts is even valuable. It
gains value from our willingness to
never give up on it and continue improving until it does work closely to how test users would like.
I completely agree with @Tuck Fheman that this is essentially the exact same thing as halting freedom of speech on the forums. Yes I agree we can search for a means by which we can fix the spam issue (this has
never been a point of contention for me). However
none of us has a place to tell someone else what tokens they can and can't make and share in this ecosystem--and if that happens we have lost the primary purpose for why we started this quest for financial freedom in the first place and should ask ourselves if we are any better than the corrupt players who we are trying to disintermediate.
And then...of course, fav...there is you openly lying to our community to tell them all that the bot is out of Open Beta. Did you ask me? Did you ask @kuro112? Did you ask @Freebieservers or maybe @hybridd told you? Perhaps ronny @ccedk did? If not....I'd love if you would take your position within this community more seriously as it is one with a GREAT DEAL of power. And we all know what it means to have great power...great responsibility. I wonder...would you disintermediate yourself if you had to?