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RE: Crowdsourced Marketing Protocol: Ideas, Proposals, Projects
@andrarchy , what happens if you see a project get traction but no one volunteers to assist? It is work that I have done twice by myself so with no other team members it just stretches the time line.
Is this something the steemit team would consider funding or would they want to see a minumum of a few steemians working on the project?
@rubenalexander That's a great question. The first thing I want to make clear is that acquiring team members/participants/volunteers will be one of our most heavily weighted metrics. If a project can't acquire a team, I believe this is a strong argument that there is a flaw in the design of the concept and it should be re-worked until it can attract the talent it claims to deserve. That being said it is entirely conceivable (though unlikely) that a project that has potential value might not be able to attract participation. In these rare cases, I would say that we would be open to evaluating concrete and objective metrics which clearly demonstrate this. The reason I put it like this is because I do not want people thinking, "Ok I can't get other people to help out with this effort, but I know it's genius so I'm going to sink my heart and soul into it and Steemit Inc. will understand." In order to increase the value of Steem we have to make investments that we have a logical reason to believe will provide a positive return. Many of the projects that have teams, that have objective metrics which indicate they will be successful and which are built on a solid concept will STILL fail. But at least they will bring steemians together and have a chance of success.
It is critical to understand that the "wisdom of the crowd" is a fundamental philosophical concept that steemit is built upon. We believe in it. Science has validated it. That's why steemit.com uses subjective proof of stake. The posts that get the most rewards are the ones that the most people with the most stake upvote. We are trying to direct that powerful mechanism toward marketing. To ignore the crowd's evaluation would defeat the purpose and violate part of what makes this platform so potentially disruptive.
All of that is to say, if one can't fulfill the standards we laid out that doesn't necessarily mean that we won't support your project, but it definitely means that the burden of proof that one's project will be productive will be that much higher.
Excellent. Thanks for the thorough explanation.
My pleasure, thanks for the question!