The dubious distinction of being the most loved to be hated
I look often at posts of my favourite authors and see so much more big votes. It is not that my stuff does not deserve it. But rather, that because I take no prisoners, the big votes, even, are afraid to be associated with me.
A bad thing in a popularity contest. A benefit when functional code is the votable material... Watch the coders flock once we punch out the alpha of the DIV core.
Any idea when steemit is planning launch the alpha? been more than a year ...
I think you mean 'Release Candidate'. Yeah, I wonder when it's going to happen also. Steemit means Steemit Condenser, btw, up the top left there. It's still beta grade... Alpha comes before beta, beta is pre-release, and then you have release. This is the convention in software development. (there is other ones too like odd versions usually also mean unstable and even ones the devs are supposed to aim to squash all pending issues before they can mark it with an even subversion.
A certain set of people make the big money here whilst most of us take what we can get. I accept that's how it is for now. I'm not doing too bad really.
Dealing with code is a lot less stressful than all the drama you get with people.
Oh, there will be bunfights, outside of the platform until the other parts are built, I'm sure. People are people. But at least there will be more substantial metrics of value, and I have to work on how to integrate and have reputation scores properly be accounted for, since after all, anyone can post any shit, and anyone could vote it up and it still be the wrong answer.
But I think that it will tend to attract more merit-driven folk anyway, to start with, and as I have realised, the people who run the system, are the ones that should be getting the biggest share. This is the way that the network grows fastest. I have to attract at least 30 or so node operators, as well as the programmers, before it can really go fully live. I still have to define the initial mechanism for before the 5 geo-region zones are being competed for, how to compensate the backup validators, the scheme by which monetisation of queries will be done. I have done some work on how to do this, but, well, now I am finally back home, I need to get my miners back in action, get a good solid 2 days of extra sleep after 3 days of hardly sleeping, this time not because of detoxing.
Being in a similar position, I fail to be popular also, way too real.
I am so looking forward to DIV. Several months ago, when you talked about your new projects,
it really piqued my interest. I support you and your efforts.
Thanks :) Yes, it's going to be a relatively small group of the most oddball people in distributed systems activism, that start this. But this is better than a bunch of graspy, elitist, anti-newbie cynics like plague most projects out there.
I can't wait until I'm fully rested and recovered and back in action.
A small group works fine if all are vocused on the same intent. Rest, recover and be well.
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