RE: The #nobidbot Tag is Growing at a Rapid Pace
Hi @bycoleman,
It seems to me that you have a great opportunity for a collaborative relationship with @whatamidoing here, and you're wasting it. I hope you will reconsider. If you're unwilling to include others who are interested in taking some personal ownership of the project, it seems unlikely to develop very far.
I know my opinion as a (non-bid) bot user probably doesn't mean very much to you, but I am very interested in any project that focuses the rewards of the platform on content creators rather than whales. My method and your method may not have much in common but I still see promise in yours and feel like it would be substantially better with @whatamidoing included in the leadership of the project he envisioned.
Both nobidbot and transparencybot gain credibility from the idea that they're there to keep small users from being pushed out of participation by larger users, rather than just a vendetta against bots. It seems odd that you would risk that credibility by pushing out the creator of #nobidbot because he is smaller than you.
Thanks for listening.
Your point is well taken and I appreciate it.
I believe I am possibly not being able to properly articulate my position.
I really do not want to take any type of ownership away from @whatamidoing or the community. Not at all. I simply saw a way to expand on this by creating the @nobidbot blog. It is my intention to pour myself and my resources into this blog. And if it makes a few pennies that would be grand, but honestly, It will take a massive amount of work and the pay will probably be meager. Proceeds were to be split within the team so curation could be realized long term. Similar to @curie, curators are paid. Without this payment, curation would probably suffer. We also expect many volunteer curators.
But one way or the other, I fully support the #nobidbot tag and will always listen to community feedback.
This is a great movement, with or without the @nobidbot blog.
The important point is the blog and the tag are not the same. But if the community or he feels they are, then I will turn over the keys to @whatamidoing.
I really do not want any controversy to destroy the movement. It is too important.
Hope this makes sense.
If I may suggest a solution, it seems to me that all this could go away quickly if you recognized that not making @whatamidoing the first person you invited to your curation team was a mistake, and rectified it.
It’s ok. Honestly, I want to see what he does with his plan and I am not looking to work as a formal curator, I just want that account to represent the collective will of everyone involved and it seems he has agreed to that. If he uses a different account name for it, I don’t see any problem.
I'm content if that is your choice.
Fair enough, yet that was not actually the intention to exclude, but instead include.
Since, I already have a curation relationship with several individuals due to running one of the largest writing contests on Steemit here. I first picked from this group, as I felt very comfortable with one person in particular and knew I could both trust him with curation as well as keys to the site. We had already established a very fine working relationship and friendship.
After this, the mission was to put together a team of curators, that was to be his job, not mine.
But none of this matters any more, I am turning this over to @whatamidoing. I simply do not want any hard feelings or controversy to destroy this movement. I will move on to a different concept. WhatamIdoing and the team can pickup and run with it. I believe you folks will do well.
Blessings!
i thought and hoped you'd keep going with the concept, just change the name of the account