RE: B.A.L.S. - What is up with Dtube Daily?
As a founding member of DtubeDaily - I personally take offense to the nature of this complaint and video - DtubeDaily has ALWAYS been inclusive and encouraging to female creators - please take a moment and ASK neeqi, art.life, waybeyondpadthai, and lostinhappiness if they felt supported in this group especially with art.life and waybeyondpadthai being admin roles.
At dtubedaily we use an AUTOVOTE trail, not a guru that decides what is good and what isnt. We include people in the trail when they take the time and SUPPORT other people through their comments on the video, chatting in the discord, delegating, and basically anything that will increase overall support of each other. Many MANY people have come to Dtubedaily to say 'Hi' once then spam our video promo section and never comment or support anyone in the group whatsoever. This is natural, because they see it as being 'free money' and support. That is never what this group was supposed to be about.
The top three delegators in the group have contributed over $2000 in steem power even by todays prices (much more when it was first delegated) and that includes myself, and usually I get (along with anyone else on the trail) about 15-20 cents per video - so maybe you can see by the numbers here that this is not exactly a 'money grab'. Not to mention the countless hours that we have put into organizing collab videos, virtual meetups, real life meetups, and just generally being nice to each other in the chat whenever we can.
So yes - we are all real individuals that have worked very hard to make an environment that was different from the 'other' discords - and, no - that is not always perfect - but dang it we really DO TRY. Currently we have 70 people on our upvote trail, and the ENTIRE DISCORD is only slightly larger than that (with many of those not on the trail having not been active on the discord or steem for months). So to the one person that didn't get it - geez sorry, but I can also say with confidence that had you engaged with other members in the discord, like say, asking if they can get on the trail - this slight oversight would NEVER have happened. Or maybe they did ask someone but it got lost or forgotten. I really dont know. I do know that we are all caring individuals who would have done our best to make it right and make a fantastic discord. But now we are all scrambling to figure out who was left behind - while we are being anonymously attacked. And that really stinks.
The tone of this video is very accusatory. There is so much injustice in the world, I hope that you will refrain from mud slinging onto your fellow steemians like this in the future - especially with the current uncertainty of steem at the moment.
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I didn't mean this as a personal attack, but clearly you have taken it that way seeing as you responded to my comment on your other post with vitriol.
I have been active on dtube "daily" for coming up on a year, and seeing as this is our first interaction, I am not shocked that you are unaware of my particular video style which tends to ask hard questions and try to get to the bottom of things.
Believe it or not, the person that contacted me wasn't the first person that had complained about DD being cliquey. (For that matter, I have heard a lot of chatter about a lot of the Dtube groups, especially from new people.) It's not about the value of the upvote. Everyone knows that a curation trail upvote isn't worth very much, but likely that people have felt as though they were trying to engage but either didn't feel particularly welcome in the Discord, or were disappointed in supporting your curation trail but never getting noticed.
And it's great for you to namedrop a couple of token ladies that you have promoted in your group, but the other truth bomb is that women are not treated particularly inclusively in these Discord groups, not to mention harassed by men outside of these groups. (And yes, even men that belong to DD. If you were offended by this video, you will likely not want to watch my upcoming one on sexual harassment in the Discord).
I really believe that you want what's best for the group and aren't deliberately ostracizing people from being a part of it, but for some individuals it doesn't necessarily come off that way.