CryptoRESPECT. All of us need to stop trying to drown each other in public. We're hurting ourselves here!
beyondbitcoin·@intelliguy·
0.000 HBDCryptoRESPECT. All of us need to stop trying to drown each other in public. We're hurting ourselves here!
<html> <p>If the cryptocurrency space was a swimming pool, you'd see people trying to drown each other. This isn't good.</p> <p><img src="http://s16.postimg.org/o033oor4l/cryptorespect.jpg" width="400" height="188"/></p> <p>As the cryptocurrency space, and related technologies like Steemit begin to flourish, there is a problem that will stop all of this from becoming mainstream:</p> <h2>Lack of respect for one another.</h2> <p>I'm talking about technology and community bashing. Excessive FUD (fear, uncertainty and death)</p> <p><strong>This is not a rant.</strong></p> <p><strong>It's going to be positive!</strong></p> <p><strong>Please continue reading...</strong></p> <p>After Bitcoin was born, and other cryptocurrency coins forked the code and came into existence, we had a lot of pump and dump scams that appeared. It was due dilligence of people to publicly debate these new projects and find the holes in the technology to avoid being scammed.</p> <p>That's understandable.</p> <p>However soon people started to realize "hey!" If I show up in a community forum, and start yelling scam, or start poking holes in something, maybe I can create FUD which will damage that project's reputation whether it is warranted or not. This might get people to run away from it with me, and I can gain their investment support elsewhere.</p> <h2>IMAGINE THIS:</h2> <p>Cryptocurrency and decentralized projects like Steemit could be like science experiments at your local highschool during your annual "science fair"</p> <p>Or these same projects would be like tables & booths at a Tradeshow convention.</p> <p>Many of these projects have been peer reviewed, and are actively being developed. </p> <p>Soon it's time to open the doors to the science fair, or the general public, and let them come in and see what we have going on.. It's time to share the various creations with the rest of the world.</p> <p>...<strong>EXCEPT THAT WE CAN'T</strong></p> <p>There is way too much in-fighting inside cryptocommunities. Too much cross fire going back and forth between different cryptocoins or Crypto 2.0 or 3.0 projects.</p> <p>We're treating this place like the wild west, cowboy days, where anything goes. But while we're sitting here shooting at each other, we're going to hit some innocent visitors to our town, and scare everyone away.</p> <p>Cryptocurrency? Decentralization?</p> <p><strong>That's nothing more than a bunch of computer geeks who constantly can't agree with one another, who constantly flame and war with each other. Non-stop fighting.</strong> There is no respect. We steal and trade developers. That community has developers badmouthing our developers, and vice-versa.</p> <p>Who would want to attend a science fair, or tradeshow, when there is verbal abuse bombs going off everywhere?</p> <p>It's time that we recognize this problem if we ever want any of these things to gain wide adoption and acceptance by the general public.</p> <p>In the normal business world, you have anti-competition bureaus, statutes, regulations, courts, licensing, bylaws, advertising practices, etc. Very little of this applies to cryptocurrency and decentralized environments when a blockchain is not owned by any geographical entity. It's decentralized ownership.</p> <p>However, respect itself is "mutual". You do not need a law or regulation to govern how much respect you give someone, or something.</p> <h2>Bad mouthing a project, its followers, investors, or its developers, and creating FUD causes this:</h2> <p>1. It smears the project and those who work hard to improve it. You're damaging countless hours of hard work by some people, who might be trying to improve the system. DON'T DO THIS</p> <p>2. The person doing the badmouthing, doesn't do it with clean hands. You also damage your own reputation when you fling mud and FUD at someone else. DON'T DO THIS</p> <p>3. What ends up happening is you just confuse people. Now no one knows who is right, and the issues get clouded on <em>both sides</em>. DON'T DO THIS</p> <p>4. <strong>The media and government love this</strong>, because we look like a bunch of geeks, with constant fighting. <em>We're destroying ourselves infront of them</em>. This makes them happy. DON'T DO THIS</p> <p>5. If you show mutual respect for an opposing or competitive project it shows that you're taking the high road, and not the low road. Bashing other projects is not a good marketing scheme. It's the worst way to get people to follow you.. it really is..</p> <p>6. We should come up with a socially acceptable way to handle these issues. What we've been doing until now, is creating a lot of bad habits that are exploited by day traders on trollbox chats. These opportunists are using our lack of respect for one another to bleed money out of the system from true long term supporters and investors who really want to see these projects get traction and go somewhere. </p> <h1>So.. if you want government, media, and day traders who suck money back to fiat, to benefit at the expense of tainting everything we build, then change nothing, and cryptorespect should mean nothing.</h1> <p><em>If we want to scare away the public and mainstream adoption</em> by the rest of the world and keep this a geek-only space, then change nothing, and <strong>cryptorespect</strong> should mean nothing.</p> <p>I'm not the leader in the cryptorespect idea. I might be one of the few to publicly post about this problem, but <strong>I'd like to find like minded people who are concerned about this as much as I am.</strong></p> <p>Together we might be able to brainstorm some solutions. Please comment and share this post as a reference.</p> <p><strong>One thing we need is a catch-all term</strong>, so we know what we're talking about, when we confront these situations.</p> <h3>Here's some futuristic sentences..</h3> <p>In lieu of your recent myth about [xyz], I want to emplore you to show some <strong>cryptorespect</strong>. Those issues have been dealt with already. Proof of that is [def] link, and [efg] link...</p> <p>I'm sorry, but due to <strong>cryptorespect</strong> ideologies, I refuse to badmouth [xyz] as a developer or his work. However, I do suggest you ask him yourself, and let us know what you find.</p> <p>Yes, I've heard about these possible problems with that other competing project, but this is not the place to discuss them. Let's show some <strong>cryptorespect</strong>, which is only fair.</p> <p>HELP! -- I NEED YOUR VIEWPOINT - PLEASE COMMENT.</p> </html>
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