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RE: An Open Letter To The Developers Of Steemit
I don't know all of the details of the complaint but I do recognize a well written letter. Too many people on here try to make their point by getting angry and ranting. You took time to word this in an appropriate way. And you even ended with some humor! Good luck in your endeavors.
@hanshotfirst Thanks! The specific issue is that there isn't presently a good way to raise the profile on important issues unless you happen to be in a certain small influence group.
The problem is that if you expend the effort to get their attention, what happens more often than not is that it becomes a high visibility blog post for the influencer instead of keeping the discussion where it started.
To compound problems, if you happen to spend the effort to raise it to their awareness, including inviting others to comment on it as an open issue, then the issue ends up getting closed and at most you can expect a link to the closed issue as part of an influencer's blog. As opposed to them sending the conversation back to the original topic that started it.
All of this wastes effort and breaks the flow. It devalues the effort involved in trying to attract attention and allows them to monetize the issue rather than letting the person who raised the issue attempt to monetize it.
When this occurs it negates the impact of those involved in the discussion thereby alienating them.
This has turned into a regular pattern and it's driving potential adopters away, who view this sort of action as not boding well for content in general.
The specific issue has already been hijacked, and so I'm content to just leave it where it's at now. But there was no credit an barely any reference to the source, which frankly felt a little like a slap in the face to those of us who were trying to debate the proposal on it's merits.
Solution, if an issue is opened on github and core believes it to be a good idea to close it and turn it into a personal blog topic. Please ask the originator of the issue to do so, then follow that topic.
I really appreciate the comments on the letter! :D