Thank you for phrasing it as a question. I can answer, but only for myself. I am a person and I like this community. I suspect others who have joined it do as well, by I'll let them chime in if so.
I do appreciate you leaving a comment rather than just downvoting.
Have a good one.
I don't think it's a good idea to disable them. I don't want to live in an echo chamber or silence critics. Facing criticism will strengthen worthwhile ideas.
And it would rob the actual users of the instance of the ability to downvote content we don't approve of legitimately.
But I do like that you've been making the voting and vote bombing transparent.
Is there a script or another way to make the voting parties visible to all users rather than just the admin? Or make it so a flood coming from external sources would be visible or filtered in some way?
This is a good idea. It's a bit like playing futures markets or locking in pricing. Buy XMR when it's down relative to fiat in advance so you can hold prices steady on goods or services you sell in it over time.
There is risk similar to currency risk, etc, but if you believe in the long term value appreciation of XMR and its use case, then it should be an acceptable risk to hold the extra in reserve.
Hey, thanks for pointing this out. Always good to get a peek under the hood.
I agree with that. Decentralize the power and diminish the control.
Do they just trawl the web looking for things to hate? Bots?
Hard to imagine there are zero comments from any of those users I've ever seen in monero.town, but that many arrived to shit on one random meme here.
"In case someone hasn't noticed yet, the people of the world are under assault by the central bankers all over the planet."
Oh, I've noticed. But many I try to share things like this with simply refuse to see.
"Anything we do to invite or welcome their participation will most certainly be to our detriment. Resist Central Authority of all types, decentralize everywhere possible and resist all attempts to centralize power and control anywhere you recognize it."
+1 for decentralization. Let's take the power back by peacefully opting out.
To follow up again, it sounds like Mr. Webb is interested in discussing this and spreading the info. I know he's done a few other interviews to promote this message.
Are there any people in the GME communities who might be able to catch his interest to do an interview or press him on some of your specific concerns and issues, or those of people who are involved or sympathetic to our cause?
If anyone here or elsewhere is that person, or aware of someone who may have the interest or pull, I'd think that could be illuminating.
Really good input and perspectives as always, Chives. I refrained from giving many of my own thoughts when posting as I wanted those who hadn't seen or read it to go in cold and form their own opinions and generate discussion here. But I will share now that many of my thoughts are similar to some of yours. I selfishly wish he'd delved deeper into certain areas and highlighted different issues. But his experience in the industry certainly eclipses mine, and I suspect that based on this abbreviated condensation of the issues he's concerned with that he is attempting to reach a broader audience and not speaking as directly to communities like this who have done deep dives around market structure and ownership over the past few years.
I thought at the very least it was worth considering what he presents and would almost certainly lead anyone who's curiosity was piqued by the discussion to pull on threads that may lead them down some of the trails communities like this have also tugged and followed down the rabbit holes they lead into.
Upvote for i2p. I need to get to learning a bit on the p2p nodes and mixnets. Lots to research and implement, not enough time to do it all. But I'll get there at some point.
It's been great so far. I hope it continues to grow so it becomes more than a fallback. I think it already has succeeded in that to some extent, but I'm looking forward to more on boarding and interaction to the point where most feel they can leave reddit in the rearview for good.
Thanks for your contributions.
I don't need to explain others downvotes or dislike of something to enjoy or find something useful myself. I dont need to base my appreciation of things on others differing opinions because I'm an individual not part of some hivemind that has to conform to popular of fashionable opinion to validate my preferences.
What others do, they do for their own reasons, which I won't know unless they comment to explain them to me.
Aa to your question about what I think, I think that what I do for myself is "right", because I choose to do it and say so as the authority on myself.
I never said I was smarter or that anyone else was dumb, so what are you even on about here? You're having a conversation with yourself that has nothing to do with anything I wrote.