RE: The Dangers of Releasing a Product (Steemit) to the Public in Beta - Being compared to Hitler
is that picture you or dan? because between the black cat and the weird grin, that guy does look kind of evil. Im just sayin'
anyway, personally, i don't support calling people hitler under any circumstances. Because its cliche. and kind of ad-hominemish.
That said, using a "democratic" system to strip voting rights away form people that you disagree with (which is what dan is talking about doing) is something that comes directly out of mein kampf. So if somone is really looking to avoid being compared to hitler, maybe whacky schemes to disenfranchise voters who are voting in a way you don't like isnt exactly the best strategy.
Even if you give dan complete BOD concerning his intentions and the effect of his proposals, at the end of the day, hes still talking about fucking around with peoples right to vote. And for good or for ill, thats something that, in our political culture, is going to invite some unflattering comparisons.
side note:
In this situation, Dan and Ned listen to the community and base many of their decisions on suggestions and interactions with Steemit users.
this is a description of a benevolent dictator. Benevolent, yes. But still a dictator. I don't think thats necessarily what people had in mind for the "new paradigm" of blockchain based socail media
IMO, dan and ned get way way way way way way way more latitude and intellectually dishonest praise than unwarranted criticism.
But then you go on to say you don't support ad hominem behavior?
No, this is the description of people trying to run a company. The front-end may be open source, but they still own and are operating a business. We as users are not automatically assigned rights to tell them how to run their company. If we stop enjoying the product, aside from complaining, our only option is to choose another platform.
replying here due to nesting
I don't necessarily want a completely decentralized or leaderless system. Im not saying you in particular do this (i only recently started following you, so i dont know how you think), but in my opinion there are many here who try to defend manifestly bad decisions as "the free market" or the "wisdom of crowds", and who try to hype steemit as something fundamentally new.
That is to say they take a fundamentally centralized, corporate system and wrap it in the flag of decentralization and the free market
The post below is certainly not the only example of this, but its a great one.
https://steemit.com/steem/@cryptogee/introducing-steem-the-first-anarchy-mined-coin