Why I’d love to invest in AIOS ICO

AIOS is a brand new social currency on offer in the crypto world. It has got some amazing innovative ideas and is building up on the fundamental rules Steemit laid in this space. Just like Steem, it has got an internal token called AIOS and like SP it uses STR for a long term investment to influence the voting strength of users. It not only pays you for authoring articles, posting videos or voting up but also pays you for the time you invest on the platform and the number of unique views you get (including from the non-members). Posting is also expected to be easier as it will have integrated image and video editors. Apart from social interactions, it is also integrating e-commerce and advertising into this platform. So users can earn AIOS tokens by inserting others' advertisements in their content and can even use this platform to buy or sell their used articles. It offers completely private chat messenger engine.

Unfortunately, this AIOS fell into controversy even before the launch of its Pre-ICO. Many have already declared it as a scam. I’m glad that @cryptick raised the flag with his research and it raised quite a stir in the organization. The prime fact he discovered was that the Marketing Head of this campaign was using a stock photo from some matrimony website. The core team has snapped up its ties with that person since then.

But the whole issue was over-hyped by turning it into a flag-war here. Even if one person of the organization’s team is a probable fraud, it cannot be deduced with complete certainty that the whole team and the idea is a scam. But people like @cryptick, @isacoin & @stellabelle jumped the gun to arrive at this conclusion and pro-actively started flagging all articles related to AIOS on Steem. Now, I don’t have any issues as if what any one concludes out of a situation but the way they are acting upon this news is curbing the freedom of others to analyze and think independently on this issue. They think whoever is talking about this ICO is an accomplice in a possible scam and must be silenced.

Here I’d like to clarify that the whole system of investing in any ICO carries a substantial amount of risk and all investors investing in ICO field know this fairly well. It is an open secret that most ICOs capitalize on pointless shit-coin pumping hype crap. It’s the greed of speculative investors which help them raise hundreds of millions worth of money for some blockchain coding project which offers no security or any tangible backing for the funds being raised. We all know that the ICO system is unregulated, speculative, non-transparent or even scammy and most of the times the so-called investors are clueless to what they are putting their money for but they all are hoping for some easy money out of someone else’s hard work. So they end up investing. In fact scams are sometimes essential to rein in such greed in our society.

Actually, you are expected to invest only that much money which you can afford to lose. ICOs are not an investment vehicle but a game for shit-coin pumpers which sometimes give off great returns. I ain’t a pump & dump player but still I’m gonna invest in AIOS ICO because I like the idea behind the project and I want to give some motivation to the team which is still at work despite of scam alerts. I don’t mind losing some money which I can consider as a charity.

Regarding the flagging game started by @crptik, @isacoin & @stellabelle, I don’t have anything personal against them but I’d like to raise a few questions to them:

1. What makes you so certain in the absence of any decisive proof that this particular ICO is a scam and is going to steal investors’ money?

2. What makes you to take proud in flagging down posts analyzing and reviewing AIOS ICO? If an independent reviewer did not come to a conclusion that this is a scam then probably he / she has complete right to do so. You can make out your own reviews and come to whatever conclusions you like to!

3. What right have you got to influence the views and analysis of any reviewer? Why do you think your views are more important than all others?

4. As an investor, I’d like to read all pros and cons about the issue. But who are you to interfere with my rights as an unbiased reader?

All the over-moderation and your over-excitement to jump on the decision you made on the basis of inconclusive evidence isn’t doing any good for this platform and the investors.

If you are so much concerned, did you ever flag the following persons?:

• There are tons of people here promoting the ponzy scheme called bitconnect. The leading personality among them is Mr. @craig-grant.

  * Did you ever flagged his posts? I know his reputation score is much higher than all of you. But so what?

* Did you flag the promoter of EOS …our own Dan?

So many red flags has been raised over EOS ICO that it has got more convincing reasons to be declared as scam than this AIOS one.

*Did you ever supported @berniesanders in his flagging mission?

Well, to conclude I’ll say that awareness is one thing and suppressing the diverse views is other. Let the people take an informed decision. I can tell you that most investors of pyramid schemes know beforehand that it won’t sustain for long. But still lot of people invest early to make hay until sun shines. Ask Craig Grant. I’m sure he must be aware of the truth about BitConnect but he is smart enough to take the advantage of the scheme and made out a lot of money off it. It’s the investors who should be blamed for all their greed. Only such greedy investors encourage scams in the market. Don’t blame the scammers, blame the investors first!

A note to Stellabelle:

You are writing a blog with over 5,000 followers, you better express your personal views there. Flagging other blogs is like bullying and misusing your power, IMO. You are considered as a celebrity among minnows. Is this the correct way to add on your reputation? Are you helping minnows by flagging their review-posts about AIOS? What will be your stand if this ICO turns out a huge success?

If you don’t like affiliate marketing, probably you don’t even understand what marketing is. You are questioning a whole subject of marketing here. Affiliations never imply dishonesty on the part of affiliates. The strength of any chain is as much as its weakest link. But that doesn’t mean that all other links were weak too. So when buying a new chain, you should check the strength of every link to be sure of its durability.

To all my readers here:

I'd like to know your opinion on this issue. I'm not much concerned about AIOS being a scam or not. But what do you think about the whales who start flagging posts in the absence of any conclusive evidence about a scam? Do you support such initiative or do you want an open discussion on this platform?

DISCLAIMER:

This post is not paid or due to be paid by AIOS in their bounty program or in any other manner by the promoters of this ICO.

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