Not surprising. Again from an outsider looking in, all I have ever seen every time checking in here, is a lathargic, morose, nay-sayering, woe be me, doomsday, cannot be done, defeatist, miserable, unenthusiastic, sad sack, elitist, profound propagandist, beneath me. Attitude.
Your suggestion carries an implication that our built-in governance system does not work. Why attempt to circumvent the thing that was specifically designed to perform this very task (community funding of projects to help the network)?
IMO, this type of suggestion does make you seem like an outsider or disruptor. While I appreciate and share your enthusiasm for Dash, your suggestion itself was in fact nay-saying, defeatist, and counter-productive, because it would be moving backwards, not forward. You should attempt to better understand or fix the infrastructure we already have in place and utilize it in the best way possible if you really support the project--rather than attempt to change it into something it's not.
We're trying to build something stable and long-lasting here, and while we're open to new ideas and excitement, it will always be met with skepticism and scrutiny. Moreover, we can't be everything for everybody at the same time. Even though it is a community-driven project, there will always be a majority of like-minded individuals within the community which dictate the overall direction of it.
My feeling is that things which are infinitely adjustable, malleable and fluid have no real investment value. You need to have some sort of identity and stability to gain people's trust, otherwise what are you investing in? At first, it was Evan and his vision. Now it is not only Evan, but a whole community of people with mostly similar ideals and goals. So in effect, the nay-saying, negativity, elitism, etc. you complain about is exactly the reason Dash has a market cap of millions rather than thousands of dollars.
As always, with open source projects like this, anyone is free to go create his own version with the same code and take the project in a different direction. However, if you really wanted to change the direction of THIS project, you can always put your money where your mouth is and buy a few hundred masternodes. And the community would respect that. If you don't want to start your own project and you don't want to buy a controlling stake in Dash, then your ideas must appeal to the voting majority and be able to stand up to logic and scrutiny.
Sorry if this is a bit off-topic, but I think it is relevant since suggestions like this have the effect of moving Dash backwards, much like the closure of the PR project did.
