TimCliff recently encouraged everyone to rally on social media to bring users to this platform. Well, this right here is why I chose to not participate. Do I believe in the potential of this platform? You bet I do. Do I think we're ready to onboard mainstream users into debacles like this? Uhhmm...no.
I don't trust the corporate machine behind this platform. I think blind trust is dangerous in any venue where leaders stand to gain more than the populace. I just wish there was more incentive for content creators to contribute here instead of other platforms. Here, it's a struggle just to stay alive.
He was actually rallying for INVESTORS, whatever that actually means, when he probably meant buyers or traders since investors actually put their money into a business to give it leverage upon which to grow, and this is a decentralized system. They can invest in a company like dtube or vimm.tv or zappl, they cannot invest in a blockchain, though they can invest in the company that allegedly makes it. And so on.
That said, can you imagine if he DID manage to bring some big money in just weeks before the pre HF crash and then the actual HF crash?
The internet would be on fire with angry "investors" and that kind of shit is hard to recover from.
But these guys are all so damn hell bent on being in a hurry, while falling over themselves slowing themselves down with mistakes, you'd think they were all like in their 20s and early 30s, fresh out of college and had no actual business or career experience or something...
or something
I had the same thought--"what if the social media campaign had been successful?" God almighty. Can you imagine the backlash after the fork? Makes me turn over in my grave and I'm not even dead yet.
bro ned just said hes gonna ban you from the front end!
Looks liek free speech is over
what say you @ned i mean the text doesnt lie
Observe @Blacklist-A:
Complete with censorship instructions stored by keeping them OFF-CHAIN because that's how management rolls around here, not using the product, because why would the guards live in the prison?
https://pastebin.com/h1unSks2
"@blacklist
Version 1.0.0.0
The Steemit @Blacklist uses a range of metrics to determine who's a repeat offender of plagiarism, hate speech, bullying, ongoing power-abuse and so on. The Blacklist is computer-generated and is updated irregularly to make sure bad behaving accounts get a quick flag so that other upvote-bots can avoid upvoting the blacklisted accounts and simply skip to the next post. The @blacklist-project is a much wider and further stretching authority than any of the singular up or downvoting guilds currently running on steemit, it is also complimentary to current projects in the same genre which are to keep the steem-blockchain unattractive for scammers, spammers and miserable trolls who are caught bullying or go after steemians in a power-abusive behaviour and so forth and so on.
The @blacklist account is a very serious project who aim to grow over the years with supporting bots and guilds respecting the black flag as the black flag is computer-generated by a popular opinion from a wide range of always active members of the community.
There are one way to get off the blacklist once you are on it, and that is to change your behavior from evil to good over your next 40 posts. Once you have reached that number you must send 40 STEEM to the @blacklist account with "REVIEW" in the memo. Someone from our staff will then manually look at your blog within the next 24-48 hours and remove you from the list if your account now qualifies for it.
The Blacklist contains between 200-500 accounts at any given time. The list grows or shrinks depending on user behavior (1) and user-reaction (2).
https://steemd.com/@blacklist-a
True...I hesitate. If I bring people into this mess after talking it up like I have.... I'd look like a fool...
Yep.
sounds whiney and ungrateful, Stop deoending on others when you could be applying for federal grants and getting nmassive steempower for various projects liek getting peopel to quit smoking or loose weight... but you probobkly wont even apply for these grants https://grants.gov its so easy yet most steemians will assume they cant possibly buy steempower with a federal grant EVEN THOUGHJ YOU CAN and that money is tHERE for us, even if youre not American you can use me as your american to apply for this stuiff, its just so easy and all we gotta do is actually apply for grants, theres FREE money being PRINTED up and its our OBLIGATION to actually capture it and restore it to a moral system liek steem where it can be stored in steempower and then used in upvotes
Theres also all sorts of simpel ways to start getting ready for teh steemit inc IPO by promoting steem on instagram and using your post rewards to do what @jerrybanfield does but nooo we all just let jerry banfield do all that work and NO ONE follows him in his wake ! Its pathetic and you should all be shamed of yourself for not working by doing simple things like pouring money into posts about promoting steem on 4chan and reddit
reddit is perfect rercruiting tool and we ALL need to spend a few hours a day on there, making reddit posts, reposting those to steem, i mean come ON people its not that hard to work like an ANT colony of cryptocurrency sales people
become like the wofl of wall street!
Here is our new target for hard fork 21! mass adoption and marketing towards reddit r/bitcoin and 4chan biz users
I won't lie though, when I say it's been an honor to face that struggle.
It's been an honor to create content solely for this community....with this community.
My show has allowed me to meet some amazing people in this community, such as yourself @rhondak
I look forward to launching the new show and then planning season 2 of HoS.
#proudsteemian