Answer and thoughts to the post from @practialthought

this post is an answer to the last post from @practicalthought (https://blurt.blog/blurt/@practicalthought/the-future-of-blurt-heading-in-a-better-direction-but-stil-just-baby-steps), the second time he has written about this topic so I will answer also to it but as it is in my eyes a complex topic it neesds a complex answer and so I considered that a post might be the best way to get that done!

First to make clear I´m not in favor of double-u but also not completely against his arguments, exactely like with megatrade, maybe you know already that I´m a born German, an old experienced member of one of the old big curating-teams on Steemit and so well known from double-u (even born and raised in the same city as he).

And hey let me state that too here double-u wasn´t alone, in that case he´s the guy who talks, but there where a lot of very talented guys who can code quite efficently even bigger projects (they´ve shone that in the past) who have went away with him because of disagreing with the tone and attitude of Megadrive and some others here.

When on a platform one adresses some issues regarding to the founders or sponsors/investors of such a project it is never easy to find the right measure even when you get a business background for more than 3 decades like me.
But its totally clear that there is on the one or on the other side a lack of money or qualified staff, and an the other hand side there is still the discussion about the decentralisation and how to reach or keep it from the users side.
B U T that´s not a specific problem of BLURT, most of the projects in this area have that too !!!

And now to the points:

• 1.) the need of steady development on a project
• 2.) the need of steady funding this project
• 3.) the need to involve the userbase in this process as far as possible

1.) the need of steady development on a project
one must understand (and I guess all or most of you are aware of that) that such a project will never stop to need work on the base functionality and on the adding of parts which will make the project:

• look better
• easier to handle
• more competitive
• more useful

...and all these points need not only one good coder, it needs a group of good, experienced and enthusiastic coders.
And know what, all of them need to make up their living like all of us, means the need to pay bills when they live from coding, they need to get payed in money or in a good (worthy) coin that they don´t struggle with their lifes because this will influence their work balance extremely negativ and thus will lead to a failing project, please keep that in mind, so this point leads directly to the second point you can´t do this without funding there is no way, belive me.

2.) the need of steady funding this project

here we go with the most discussed and most hated point of all in every project, everybody has some expectations on the project in case of return on invest (ROI), in interest and also in terms of respect for perfomance (not only financial, but also in the form of work).

We normally have one of the following structures of funding a project:

• one single or a group of Investors (often the founders of the project here in Crypto)
• a Co-investor who brings in the needed capital, or infrastructure in form of Staff, or both of them points
• a community funded project which needs a much more complicated make up of the project

all of these three types of funding had their own special expectations on investors side and thus for a good reason, most of them not just like to pay for charity (unlike it is a project which had such a background) and if so they will expect some tax-credit solution for their investment, that´s the same when the bloggers and content creators expect a return in coins and reputation on the project.

The first type of Investor(s) mostly have their own benefit from the project in mind, forsure therefor you need a working project that brings also value to the customers, in our case the Users/Bloggers they must find a useful tool for their needs and with having that normally the Investors secure their own profit which comes from the success on higher numbers of users and trafic, these guys mostly have a mid to long term interest in the project what means they will stay normally for the whole developing processto reach their financial goal.

The second type of Investor(s) have normal different approaches in a project, the ones who only bring financing will act more or less in a short term so in the initial phase or for max one year then they expect to get there money and an interest on top or their money and some coins instead of the interest. The ones who bring in staff or infrastructure may see this more in a mid term case what means they possibly will stay for the whole time of the pre development and maybe a time when there will be further adoptions and then hand over to another crew from the project owner what was build under their leadership, so at this moment they also expect at least a return if not before in coins when the project will be launched.

The third type of investor(s) is much complicated than the other two before, we got a existing community or new growing community as the new Userbase and the investor(s) itself, so they had to deal with a not easy way to find the right amount of money for the funding and the right amount of users who bring it in even when this process will be stretched over a few installments its not as easy to handle like in the 2 earlier described ways because you also need the consent of nearly all or a huge number of community members what´s not the case in the other scenarios. And that´s why most projects will come with a mix of the first two funding types its just easier to handle things and come to a decission.
But anyway even this third type of investor(s) expect a return in form of coins, extrapayment on publications in money or coins or a share in the project.

As we can see all of the Investor types have their expectation, and all of them had them for a good reason, they worked for it in one or the other way with labor or with funding.
Nobody will work or fund without getting something useful back don´t matters if its money, coins , labor from the other party on a own project or even a switch of goods, this principle is as old as men kind there is no way around it.
And that´s why their is the need to make a decission before you start a project, you will struggle if you try to do this on the way when actually their was put work in before that makes thing more complicate as they are normally -and believe me- funding a project or a company is never easy otherwise everyone would do so.

In such a situation like we have it here on the table actually (or in just a few days ahead) there is the need to bring these two parts of expectations smootly together that no one falls apart or lost the payment for his invested money/time or labor, there must be goodwill on both sides to bring the best possible solution with the most possible success for the joint project, that´s essential !
If there is no way to achieve this, the project is dead and everyone involved loses (their money, their work, their time)

I never had such kind of projects in my business life with the huge community because it was normally companies or family offices and when there was more than one investor/shareholder it was sometimes difficult enough to find the mayority for a decissione what brings the project towards the goal.

Taking all that said into account one must recognise that there must be movement on both sides in our case with the project of BLURT to be the succes what it deserves.

And to make that also clear too, from my experience of the past 4 years with Steemit, HIVE, Blurt, Appics, Noise and some other ones, there will be always guys who suck on the honeypot (the reward pool) and don´t have nothing else in their silly heads than just making as much money they can without having just one single thought in losses of the rest, and hey to state this also very clear that´s most of the times the same guys (yeah they are on every chain, right, they move from one chain to another when the rip is over or the pot nearly empty), most of us know them very well ;)