I do not know everything about this argument, nor could I hope to but I can say since I have been here @ctime @mariuszkarowski and @mmmmkkk spelt wrong but same guy anyways have been amazing curators. I have seen them literally curating a variety of great posts by a variety of bloggers every day. I would say they have made this place much better, without them I am seeing great posts by really involved bloggers are getting like 50 c and how many of those ppl will stay around now? It's not that people don't like blurt but people do need to generate income and I doubt they will be spending as much time as they have if it doesn't even pay for a coffee every day. I haven't really seen anyone else with big votes doing what they have, I've even seen many just giving upvotes to selfies with a blurt logo on a lot of the time. I think the place will be a lot less inviting to a lot of ppl without those accounts. Maybe they were not perfect but I believe there are better ways to go to keep people happy and form an agreement in the middle.
RE: Part 2 - The Real Threat of Community Hijacking
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Part 2 - The Real Threat of Community Hijacking
I have explained that in my post (I have no intention of defending myself from nonsenses and conspiracy theories by megadrive and hivewatchers)
https://blurt.blog/decentralization-day/@mariuszkarowski/d-day-countdown-and-now-an-ending
The official accounts of the so-called foundation upvoted very often accounts like blurtbot which is additionally paid by the foundation for running social media accounts.
I believe that the so-called foundation does not have the rights to use "printed funds" for upvoting because it impoverishes the investors who invested real money in BLURT and bloggers like you who are not getting upvotes from them
I don't know about the inner core issues, people who can look into things a bit more on the blockchain will need to do that, but from simply watching and observing you guys have given people who I really believe work hard on this platform and post good quality content upvotes to help them stay motivated. There are a lot of people with big voting power who I see just voting the same old small group of people constantly irrespective of what they post. I really believe without these three accounts many people would have left by now. I even suggested accounts not getting decent rewards for their quality content and these accounts stepped up to the plate.
The issue not about upvotes, if the foundation leave, I've been told that nothing will work, even the blockchain will have an issue, and we may see bugs and not working frontend. They are who pay the developers to make everything work. And those who are upvoting, I don't know if they have developers who can code the blockchain and take care of it or not. Running all this and make it work is not an easy task. I understand if the other side with big stake have developers, and they will be able to run everything, but I guess they have not. That's the biggest issue, that's why as a blogger you should wish they both stay. And I wished none of this drama happened, and they contacted each other and solved that in private, but since it's already public, I don't know what to say. I just want to explain the situation from my point of view. And as always I could be mistaken, still trying to look at the big picture.
I have never said I want the foundation to go but I personally I do call for transparency and answers to the questions people have asked and a lot more transparency and involvement from the community about how money is spent. If someone invested in shares all this stuff is public, or at least supposed to be and blockchain is supposed to make it so everything is FAR more transparent, thats the whole point of it.
Yes, there must be more transparency. I saw several witnesses in that shared meeting blaming much of this on lack of transparency.
Yes this rly doesn’t sit well with me that the only project to get funded is one of MD s friends and there is no public listing of this and was opidia paid tons of money for using a photo? I think we need a lot better transparency. I personally don’t mind having a foundation at all as long as it serves its community, I don’t want one that’s self interested, freezes accounts willy nilly, only funds it’s friends proposals and doesn’t even ask what the community thinks, listens to what the community wants or allow outside witnesses into the discord chat. Things are really off here and some things I’ve heard have really disappointed me over the last few days. It just sounds like a draconian rule by MD, that’s really not the point of blockchain, he is supposed to be the one who founded the platform for the people, yet no one gets any say in anything.
Yes, there has been a compounding of many wrongs here. Jacob appears to be back now so some of this might be salvageable. I just stopped my power down I started 8 days ago to see if he can right this ship.
I think EVERYONE would be ok with seeing a developer being paid however to make the platform better and continue to work, I don't mind a foundation but it HAS to be more transparent and fair than just giving huge sums of money to friends for projects that most people here probably don't think are useful at all, like paying for images etc when you can get them for a big upvote or an open competition or even.a stock site for a few $, if they really are paying huge sums for friends just provide one of their existing images thats pretty shocking to me. I think EVERYONE would actually agree to paying developers even more than they are doing and bringing on new ones. I want to trust these people but I am waning.
I also know that developing is really expensive. And also I heard that graphene blockchain developers are not that many in the world. It's kind of hard to code or something. About transparency, I guess even in steem and hive, we can't know for sure how much those developers are paid. I don't know the reason behind that, but maybe they all prefer people to not know about that. I don't know. After 5 years on all these blockchain I understand now many things and still learning.
the developers and core team is one thing but friends being given money to make shoes and possibly just let their images be used for huge sums of money when they don't have the money to pay for needed developers or marketing is really off to me and I would love to see a list of where all the money has been given and to what projects so it\s not just hearsay but we can see for ourselves, even share holders get this right and blockchain is supposed to be more transparent, thats the whole point of it. I personally would like to see the community be able to make decisions on what money is spent where and see people in the community working hard given a helping hand to grow their projects outside of the money holders friends.
Do we have such transparency in steem or any other blockchain you know ?
To a point yes on steemit and hive proposals are at least publicly voted on and blurt is supposed to be an improvement. Right now it seems it’s just one person giving out money to ppl he chooses.
The issues from my understanding is that not many programmers can program is C language which is what is used on the chain. So the ones who can are used to being paid more than normal programmers and sadly to my understanding the few programmers we have are not getting anywhere close to market rates as it is.
That's why @ultravioletmag many programmers left before. They preferred to work in other spaces for better money. But those who are staying are working here for the idea mostly, not for big money. Because trust me with their skills they can make much more of money ! But they are staying and that's a big respect.
When have I ever said anything about paying programmers though? I agree with that it’s necessary core work. Making blurt shoes and providing and imagine no one liked anyways isn’t necessary and things like that should be up for community vote not just done behind closed doors. I don’t know why we keep talking about developers when I’ve never seen in person question paying them
I was told blurt was going to move over to a more popular language at some point
There has been some indecision on this, and it appears that they are instead focusing on developing some other projects and airdropping them to the community. We already had one (dig) and supposedly are going to get another for Gamestate.
personally I think they need to make some big changes if they want peoples support. I am sure there are two sides to every story and I am not taking sides because I am not informed enough but I do want to see a summary of what has been given funds from the foundation. So far all I have seen is money being thrown at people in a small group and no actual people working really hard being able to get anything to help projects that are really helping blurt. I don't see much transparency and blockchain is supposed to be all about transparency. I bet no one knew till today that someone had gotten nearly 1000$ to make shoes for example and god knows what else has been funded.
This.
https://blurt.blog/blurt/@practicalthought/rdsynl
For my vantage point here were the options being presented to the community. Neither were great, but one had a high likelihood of costing us the entire community.
https://blurt.blog/blurt/@practicalthought/rdsynl