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RE: Why BitShares Need Sustainable Pricing?
Very late reply, but wanted to post.
I like the idea of fees supporting BitShares as a whole. One thing I don’t see you bring up is the refund workers. The refund workers effectively put back BTS that isn’t being used. I believe the refund400k worker is still voted in.
As far as comparing BitShares to other organizations, I also agree about the advertisement needing to be stepped up. I have been pushing different things to Twitter and drawing attention to them. I think some of the marketing efforts have to be done by the community as well.
Yeah, I agree refund workers are an issue as well. That is a separate issue. The refund worker stops work and sends money back into the general fund. This stops any worker proposal that does not meet minimum requirements. The problem is that everyone want a worker proposal to meet a very high standard, and then not pay for the costs of a high standards. Getting a worker proposal past, takes and enormous amount of effort about 160 hours of work. (If you have 10 people who all work 2 hours a week for two months). There are no guarantees. And everyone has different ideas on what to do.
So while it is good that refund workers can "stop" worker proposals that do not meet a threshold, it is so much more complicated. The Big Proxies, are all trying to run businesses and don't have unlimited time to look at this stuff. Small worker proposal almost never get approved. And even good worker proposals do not get approved without a massive marketing campaign. It is too hard to get attention. Not every issue, is going to be something to get people excited. Voting is like going to the polls, everyone wants to vote for president, but no one cares about the other races and issues. We need more low level engagement. We need more workers, we need things to get done. And many times there are things that are not going to get attention or raise money. These need to be done too. I mean if you are polling kids, who wants to eat birthday cake and who wants to exercise and you need to win a "political campaign" in order to get permission to do both, which one do you think wins? There are things that need to get done and are not popular. In the real business world, business people put together a budget that addresses everything. In BTS no one is paid to do that, and everyone is second guessing what everyone else does.
Again, very late reply (been on Steemit much less in the past months).
I agree, having small workers getting approved is a stumbling block I have encountered myself. And creating a proposal now is more expensive than it used to be. Smaller proposals often go unnoticed. That should change.
As far as the last sentence: “...everyone is second guessing what everyone else does.” I do not see it like that. The opposition that I see in the forums are genuine questions and concerns of those who have been around for a while. I like to think of them as elders. They have way more “wisdom” as far as the BTS ecosystem goes and more knowledge of what goes into a good worker.