hi
@TaoOfSatoshi ... so you decided to continue on the forum... you know what makes a good leader - listening and understanding what the others say. It looks like you did not understand too much from what we were trying to say to you and still continue your campaign here.
I do not even want to comment the fact that it is brought to the forum by the guy, who has no account on Slack...
Let me clarify this one time again and I will shut my mouth up. Believe me or not but I have no intention to insult you - just sharing neutral feedback (whether you accept it or not is your choice). Try to look at it neutral way too (despite my direct way of sharing feedback - I am not a politician and I simply say what I think).
Most of the time you (and almost everyone) accept feedback only when someone says "oh, you are great", "you do a great job" etc. otherwise you don't listen or don't see it. Have a look at your thread:
https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/proposal-tao-community-coordinator.9183 - many people tried to politely say that community leader role is not the best idea, however you continue to keep posting about it everywhere and convince people to vote. And this was my point - chill out. It is not necessary to ask for votes almost everywhere, every day... this looks more like a political campaign.
Besides of this, I find the proposal very unclear - I would see it rather converted to project with clear goals and measures instead of bucket of promises. This would make it much better and easier for you in my opinion. Otherwise you might have a hard time to convince people that you are doing the right job in couple of months.
In the current form your proposal looks unprepared too - you are making a lot of assumptions without actual agreements e.g. "Enhance communication between the core team and community. [...]" (I am generally referring to the entire paragraph
Community Coordinator (New responsibilities) from your proposal) . I was thinking that we have already discussed this and agreed about communication (here:
https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/dash-nation-consensus-discussion.8759/page-11#post-93452)... and after couple of weeks the topic is back on the table. There is no reason to try to create a perception of a problem that does not exist. Did you actually ask at least one of the core team members if he needs any help to maintain the link between the core team and community? Did you ask more community members if they see this problem (everyone, not 4-5 guys that disagree with almost every action of the core team)? Did you check if the team sees it an issue that needs to be resolved by elected "leader"? Did you ask core team members if they are ready to dedicate additional time for you (I am sure they would do it if necessary, the point is that you did not even ask)?
You also make promises like this one:
https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/proposal-tao-community-coordinator.9183/#post-97125 (I guess, I saw similar promise about FB account). Did you make this agreement with anyone who maintains the account at the moment? Won't it create another unnecessary discussion if access should be granted or not? What would be the content of this ? etc.
Don't get me wrong but what is good for DashNation promotion might not be the best solution for Dash promotion. We intend to build a serious financial system and, personally, I would not take seriously any financial solution promoted by the guy sitting and talking out of his shower. Would you? The style of official channels has to be very different than this (probably more conservative than majority of social media channels) - this wasn't agreed with anyone neither...
Referring to what you wrote:
However, if the goal of this project is decentralization
Wrong assumption. Our goal is to provide people with fair, decentralized financial solutions. Decentralization is not the goal itself, as far as I know. I can even hardly imagine any project being developed totally decentralized way as it means no teams, no leadership (irony, right?), no common goals and approach etc. Projects are centralized by their nature. Outcomes could be decentralized.
As for
@kot's marginalizing comments that I am not a good leader and only interested in self-promotion, that is VERY insulting. I have not asked for a thing in the two years I have been aggressively promoting Dash. I don't use my real picture or name, am I trying to promote a Dalmatian?
1. Please do not manipulate my words (politics?) I did not say you are interested only in self-promotion. Did I? You are simply trying too hard to promote DashNation and your proposal literally everywhere (and it makes me feel tired). Chill-out. Everyone knows about it already. They will vote.
2. If you feel very insulted by what I wrote, better prepare yourself for hell. This is not a role for sensitive person. Being a leader means also having difficult conversations and meeting people who disagree with you and don't like you (on daily basis). Look how many direct and indirect attacks experience the core team (even myself - I am not a leader, just a simple PM but sometimes I feel that almost whatever I write/do is perceived as something negative (by the same crew every time) - this is part of the job).
To know the reason for this exchange, I brought a concern of mine's proof to the core team. I saw that a person had asked a mining question
over two days ago, and I noticed that it had still not been answered. I suggested that I could help with issues such as these to make people feel valued instead of ignored. I offered to make posts such as these and commit to follow up, as part of my community lead proposal. This is a way better way to deal with newbies.
https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/newbie-questions-around-wallet-payment-address-and-pools.9208/
That's what led to the reaction of Daniel and Kot that
@TheDashGuy posted.
Again - please do not manipulate. The reason for this exchange was you posting everywhere about DashNation and voting for Community Leader.
We were asking you to stop this. Suggesting that it was about helping the newbie is ... hmmm... simply manipulation.
I hope you will not feel insulted again by my opinion - I had no intention to do such thing and have respect for what you did for he project (therefore I spend a lot of time to write this message to clarify my opinion, instead of writing so brilliant comment like "Get your shit together" or "You'd think this was a fucking gamestop run by teenagers ").
You are a good person, extraordinary Dash promoter and supporter. I do not know from where (or from whom) the idea of voting for the leadership role came from but it is not a good idea in my opinion. First of all - this project already has a leader, very brilliant one. Second - you cannot make person a leader just because you give him your vote (you can only elect person to do some role this way, leadership is something different). Third - the proposal is unclear and unprepared - in my opinion you will experience a lot of difficulties and frustration during the execution just because you did not agree any of it's points with interested parties (you just put some general description and assumptions instead). Are you going to force people to do what you want or what? People you are going to work with need to understand your goals and share your vision. Otherwise no one will follow. In this case there is no defined goals and vision is not understood by many.
Think about it - this proposal could be much better.
Good luck!
