Merry Christmas to everyone on here who celebrates.
Unfortunately, I awoke this morning to some controversy.
Most of you are aware of what took place the past couple days with @dstors. A post that @whatsup wrote caused a great deal of controversy. It was met with some aggressive comments; reactions that really did not mirror the questions posed. Most troubling was the fact some of the responses came from the dStors account itself.
@kaliju replied in the comment section of one of the post (I cannot recall which one) that he was not the one posting for the account and the matter was taken care of. He was back in control of the @dstors Steem account and the matter was dealt with.
We come to find out what dealing with look like. We now get this post announcing the split of dStors with dCommerce now emerging.
https://busy.org/@dcommerce/dstors-project-has-a-brand-new-name-dcommerce
This is not uncommon since project teams often have difference of opinion and there typically some egos involved. Projects splitting, while not the best thing in the world, can often be good in the long run. Unfortunately, something smells fishy at this time.
So what is the deal? As with most splits, stuff is divided. What is really remaining with dStors?
The past two days saw a couple posts in the @dstors account. The first was a survey to try and gather information about people's buying and selling habits. The second was one wishing everyone a Merry Christmas along with a promise to update in a few days.
Now, I can understand it is business as usual mindset in times like this. Things still must be done. Also, I get having to take time to figure some things out and evaluate where they stand. However, now is not the time to go silent. We saw that behavior with Steemit and it was not well received.
Thus far, all responses from @kaliju are in comments. There is nothing about any of this from the @dstors account. Here is a prime example where reputation is not just a number next to one's username.
In reading the post by @dcommerce, it seems like they did all the work and now, essentially, dStors is dCommerce. While the dStors name is still in effect, all the assets (ideas) went with dCommerce. Is that true?
We see this from @kaliju, again in the comment section.
No it does not sound like a rebranding. It appears the person who was doing the posting was the entire project and took it. At least that is how their post positions it.
dCommerce is a different project separate from dStors. They are asking for their own delegation and people will have to do their own research into it. It is up to each person to decide to delegate or not. At this point, they have no responsibility to anyone.
dStors, on the other hand, already took in a ton of delegation. It is your responsibility to communicate with the people who delegated. They need information to make a somewhat informed decision. Either way, it is good business practice. As I said, reputation is a lot more than just a number.
Ergo, the ones with no responsibility put up a post explaining the situation while the ones with it, go silent. Does anyone else see the disconnect in this?
Having two projects is never a bad thing. However, in this situation it looks like the ones who can pull it off moved on and dStors is left with a name. At least that is how it is being presented, granted by one group only.
In other words, it looks like there is only one project and it just went from dSotrs to dCommerce. That is how I read it anyway.
As we know there are a ton of great ideas in this industry. Hell, since I am one who believes in tokenizing everything, I have about 10 a day. The problem is it requires a lot more than a great idea to actually change anything. We know many, if not most, projects on Steem (and everywhere else) will fail. They do so for a variety of reasons and, in the end, it does not matter. The ones that survive are what makes the difference while the failures are learning opportunities.
So what is dStors?
At this moment, silent.
I guess they are being in the spirit of things.
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https://steempeak.com/dstors/@dstors/official-statement-from-dstors
It's simple. I don't know what they're presenting over there - no interest to follow. We proceed regardless.
It is not true. dStors' account, as can be observed from what sparked the controversy on @whatsup's original post, was used to communicate with her and others. Those are the same persons that now started that other commerce thing. This is the MAIN reason they left - I demanded to never talk to our community in this manner again and that sparked an argument about what's really important. And from the looks of it, their whitepaper and profit model was the most important thing. To me - it was always about people, code and product. That's where we split.
You guys do your own thinking and please read my post at the above link as that is the official statement on the situation and changes. Who the team behind the new venture is none of my business to discuss. They will need to identify that with the community themselves. dStors was never a scam and it has always been me and @derangedvisions working on a thousand things at once. And we'll continue working on the original. Remember when you reported on that first mention of dStors I made with that black and white raccoon logo we had? Read that one again - you'll see a thing or two that's been missing from all this mess recently. And it's not about a specific business model, but the intentions of the original product idea.
I'm actually glad that I no longer have to answer for that white paper and token model that we freed ourselves from! Hope you can do another post in the future, breaking things down in greater detail because we now have two official statements from me and Wes and then the earlier one from"dcommerce".
That's because it all happened when I was literally asleep! Taskmaster, this is not helping me at all. Just because they posted first doesn't mean a thing. I hope the latest post from @dstors tames the flames of your post here. I can't keep up with all that's being discussed and I DEFINITELY don't want any misunderstandings. I'll try to answer as much as I can, when I can. Cheers.
I think this highlights another positive of the DPOS system in that we can continue to be flexible with our stake and delegate how we want with limited constraints. Contrary to ICOs and other investments, we obly lose the opportunity cost of having SP delegated to a project not performing or in doubt. We can always scale it back if that is necessary given the latest information available. The concept of commerce leveraging the blockchain and its community is still a great opportunity so time will tell!
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I had given dstors a small delegation but withdrawing it was a no-brainer.
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I see they have a good competitor in dcommerce before it get started. Anyway, I see people started to undelegate from dstors.
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I pulled my Delegation a Couple of Days Ago and No Matter What They Want to Call Themselves going Forward I will not be anywhere Near It !
Well, this project turned out to be a waste of time. So much drama before they even begun, that's not a good way to get investment.
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