Very interesting. I wish I had access to this unfair inner circle to see if things are done ethically, or simply just know the inner workings to have more or less confidence in all of the time I've invested on this platform being worth anything in the long run. Bravo.
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The best thing for us would be to have a 'Slack on Steem' - and we'd all have automatic access through our Steem accounts. We'd have clarity on identity as well. Rooms could still be invite only for writing purposes (clutter in discussions prevented), but everyone should be able to read.
There's no unfair inner circle. One of the reasons its a smaller group because slack use is charged per person. It's actually very expensive. If you look at the list of people there you'll see there are both whales and minnows, top and low-ranking witnesses, developers and project creators. It's not some group where you have to slaughter a goat and own a million dollars to get into.
Appreciate the response. Let's say I bought slack access... Where's the advertisement/open invitation for people to be a part of these chats? Have there been any? While it may not rightfully or technically be an inner circle in your eyes, it sure looks that way to others. It seems that much of how the heaviest influencers communicate with Steemit Inc is decided in relative private amongst this group until chats became public lately out of necessity. That feels a bit centralized, even if most have the best of intentions.
Also, when looking through the chats in the link someone replied with here, I believe someone complained about someone without hefty stake (term loosely used here) being in that particular room, so if that's correct, that doesn't sound too fair.
Nah I get what you mean. I was a normal blogger here before I got into witnessing. Originally I figured that everything is some scam with witnesses and Steemit Inc colluding or being one and the same or not doing anything. It turned out not to be true. Took me a long time to really get that the witnesses are all unique individuals and that they really do give a shit about the chain and steem and about the users. The witness slack is basically a whole bunch of people talking tech. If someone isn't intrinsically familiar with how the chain and development works, it'd be hard for them to contribute or follow.
To be honest the best way to actually work together is through Github. If you go through https://github.com/steemit you can see the absolute accuracy of what's going on and what's being worked on. You can also comment on it and propose your own ideas in a way where everyone will see them. That's why one of the things witnesses and developers want is to be able to have increased contribution rights to the repo. That would make it a real community decentralized project.
Thanks for your reply. I'm just noting that I added my last comments on the end as an edit seemingly at the exact moment you replied, so just make sure you were aware of that if it would've influenced anything in your initial reply. I was reading through the invites file linked above and it was apparent that people were discussing who gets in and who doesn't, which obviously didn't seem super inclusive.
Thanks for the nice reply and for pointing me to Github. I know there are lots of good people such as yourself.
Secret Steem Committee Chat Dumps (rehosted):
https://mega.nz/#!lldHVKBJ!OCTGSltvSKvLMBTPdXbKFJMfMAVyhh6kHZ_SHnG0FsM