I was in a conversation about this with Khrom recently, and posted about it here and here. But he stopped replying. It's hard to find anyone willing to confront reality and take on the real problem.
You're right, more/better content isn't what will fix Blurt. That's about as backwards as could possibly be. What we REALLY need to fix Blurt is right there in my posts about it - we need to stop the corruption, hypocrisy, and cronyism at the very top. Nobody is going to be interested in Blurt while it's just a big money-making scheme for 3 or 4 guys that prevent anyone else from joining their club and just syphon out all the investment that anyone else dares to put in.
We literally are run by comment-farming circle-jerkers playing with printed stake, who use their insider powers to stop anyone else from doing what they do. People playing fair haven't got a hope. We are suckers.
Until we deal with that, Blurt is broken and useless. The only independent people making a dribble of income here are locked to the tit of Blurtbooster (Blurt's universal basic income). I'm one of the top content-creators here, but since I don't immediately milk my payouts off the platform, I'm LOSING money. I now have $1500 to show for 10 years of nonstop full-time work and investment (5 years of crypto donations on YouTube and 5 years on these 3 blockchains). If we could somehow get the "foundation"/insiders/owners of this blockchain to decentralize control, we have a chance. Then, a positive feedback loop of investment, content, hype, and rising token price could occur.
Until then, any advance we make will be soaked up and stolen by Megalomaniac, Richarse, and 1 or 2 of their friends (hard to tell exactly, as they use a network of fake accounts to do their dirty business). There are a few more dirty buggers like blurtyield, offgridlife, practicalthought, leifasaur etc but they are not the inner circle that really is the rot stopping Blurt from being viable.
Sorry i just somehow missed your reply. i have very little time to spend on blurt so i usually i prefer do something than just talking ;)
Of course i agree whit all you saying. And of course you have right that better content don't do the job ;)
but as i say above here i se this from the other perspective where do something for now with fake stake is not really easy and in the meantime Blurt could just fall because no other actions to show people that we trying to do something interesting here.
privately i cannot do anything with fake stake. i don't have any resources to do something more than just remembering what is a problem and talking about that. Whales like a mmk or ctime can.
I can only, with people like @fervi, developing infrastructure to built some difference here for, people who like @fort and i looking here some place to publishing sharing their thoughts and gain something for that. For example by, securing network for us and for example if it will be hot here we can always do another fork.
And also i can participate in blocking future HF if they want to make some unacceptable changes on blurt blockchain and that's i'm trying to do here.
Alright, I understand you're too busy, and that you wouldn't be able to do much even if you had more time. As I've pointed out - and nobody is able to come up with any reason I'm not correct - Blurt will continue to fail and die unless this problem is solved. We will just have to hope for the best. Good luck.
Well, I wouldn't see it so badly. some things just take time. I think we'll have to wait a year and a half to see how things go.
Is that when Rychade and Megalomaniac are going to end their corruption?
I doubt it, but it took about six months to a year for most of the projects I've seen to bounce back from the crisis or fail completely right after things started to go wrong. And more or less after such a time it was clear that if you still have any coins in this project, you can easily withdraw them because they are unlikely to rebound. Although these are just statistics, and examples of projects such as dogecoin, which was a shitcoin for 2 years, of course teach us that sometimes something unpredictable can happen.
Hi @khrom & @drutter,
(Just thought I would interject here.)
We also need to consider... the crypto tide is receding. Once value begins to flow back into the crypto sea all the fundamentals change.
There are seasons... and now is the time to invest in the future rather than expect the returns of summer.
We are here... and that means we have made the decision to go long on Blurt.
There are always going to be problems to solve... the bigger (more successful) the project the bigger the problems there will be to solve.
Rather than thinking Blurt is broken... we all need to remember the reasons why we first came here in the first place... and find vision/ways to build undeniable value around the platform we have chosen to establish ourselves on. (That's my point of reference anyways.)
Sincerely,
@wil.metcalfe
Comet Ranker
those are golden words. It is in this spirit that I try to act.
Despite being aware of the problem of blurt bososter. Here I will add from myself about the booster because you asked what it was about.
The problem is that it's the biggest force after upu. Unlike upu, the entire stake belongs to the founders and they have power over it, and in the case of upu, these are funds from the delegation. In the first case, only the founders earn money on the treatment, who by the way use this account to maintain power, regardless of whether others like their actions or not, which disturbs the assumptions of this blockchain as a place where we decide who creates it.
However, while it is still understandable, the biggest problem with this sum is that it was entirely printed by the regent's account, which was programmed to create these blurts out of nothing for 2 years. And here is the greatest risk:
These are mega-easy blurts for free that have a value in the pot that is almost equivalent to what all the rest have. In the event that they were paid out, for example, during some bull market in the future, they would reset the stock market, crashing the market and leaving people who invested here, huge money with nothing.
The more so that they are owned by the same people who are responsible for most of the infrastructure through which blurt works. Which in the case of the aforementioned action would practically bury this network at the moment and would not even give a chance for these investors to get back, for example, in the future.
Of course, it cannot be assumed that this is the intention of the creators, but also taking into account the numerous already famous scams on the crypto market, it is also not surprising that such "setting" raises anxiety, especially among investors such as mk and ctime who have the most to lose here.
Well we can hope to be the next dogecoin I guess. But I really don't see it happening unless the corruption ends. The corrupt ones who rule this chain will just continue to take all the profits for themselves. I don't think dogecoin was ruled by 3 corrupt circle-jerking comment farmers using printed stake against everyone else. We don't have a year and a half, if we don't prove ourselves as viable immediately there's no future here. It is most likely already too late.
Therefore, I believe that one of the key issues is promotion.
In turn, regarding this sum, @mariuszkarowski said somewhere that when it comes to rycharde, it is a drop in the ocean and if the blurt network were visited by 2 or three more investors like mk and ctime, this sum that holds and multiplies megadrive on blurtbooster it wouldn't be so overwhelming either. The whole pain with this is that it is a matter of scale that in relation to the price of blurt and the number of applications and other functions that have here, this amount is simply large for now. However, there is a chance to disperse it to other users and change the balance of power here.
Yeah, well you know how I feel about promoting (advertising) a garbage product... it's harmful to the platform because it will permanently drive people away. We can't in our right minds promote a corrupt blockchain to investors or creators, knowing they will be harmed by getting involved. Anyone with a brain will look into this place upon hearing about it, and run screaming away, probably forever. I would never recommend a corrupt platform to my friends or family, or even strangers. We must stop the corruption, hypocrisy, and cronyism that is eating away at every corner of Blurt.
If Richarde's abuse, with millions of printed stake, is considered no big deal, why does he do everything possible to stop others from doing it? Why not let it happen if it doesn't matter? Yet when I joined here, and many times since, I have seen that we are expected to NEVER milk the system with comment-farming or circle-jerking, even in tiny amounts. The founders were clear to me when I signed up in my first post, welcoming me here but warning against such antics. Vote for your wife, no problem, they said... just don't vote for your own comments on a regular basis, and don't be a bad curator by making arrangements with other users to vote each other in a circle-jerk. I guess only they're allowed to do this (hypocrisy)?
Maybe I'll start voting all my own comments 100%, instead of giving away the reward pool to real content I see on this blockchain? It's much easier, and if you don't see a problem with it, my tiny amount shouldn't be an issue.
PS: Want to vote all my comments 100%? I'll do the same for you! Save time looking for real content to vote... and make much more money every day! Sound good? ;)
If you were casting a very cynical eye over it all, you'd almost be forgiven for hearing 'ponzi' whispering in the wind, wouldn't you....