I am pasting my response from bernie post here.....
@ned can do with his money what he wants...but he is the CEO of STINC in addition to being a token holder.
Needless to say CEO selling off his share of tokens is a signal , to say the least.
Words are words but actions have much more weight .Now I am not saying to hit the panic button and lose all confidence but there is a number where the % sell of by CEO signals low confidence in the project ,
are we there yet ? probably not
does @ned selling his token is very much same as other token holders? it is not.
Addition:
Are
People are unnecessarily harsh with @ned?
Quite a lot of times. ..
Also ..a little bit of communication from him can easily avoid any such sepculation..
Example :
Glad to annunce our partnership with xyz company for abc project and i welcome their @account on Steemit...
I agree with this as well. I do think they are trying harder.
yes, communication has improved but certain critical things still need to addressed.
I think it would benefit them, but I don't think they HAVE to address it. :)
True , they don't HAVE to do any of it , it's mostly best practice stuff...
If he issued a statement it'd imply he owes us explanations, and since words aren't actions a lot of people wouldn't believe him anyway.
Nice post - @ned has a huge share of Steem and he probably needs some throwing around money.
what he does with his Steem is his business and shouldn't be seen as a bad thing.
As implied in this post, Poor guy is damned if he does or damned if he doesn't.
What we do know is he is committed, intelligent, delivered us Steem/Steemit that we love; and is hiring new staff.
If I had any critisim at all it would be if he could share more about the challenges he is facing, so we can all get behind him.
This was in regard of his statement (below) and me juxtaposing this statement against the cashing out event.
Haha, there is a lot of truth in that.