I don't think that you can or should run a business as a decentralized entity. A blockchain is different to a business and if you want to fix things you need an owner or ownership group IMO. A group of people with a clear plan and vision that are willing to put in the time, effort and money to bring it to light.
Leofinance are a good example of this with a clear ownership structure that is supplemented by volunteers and feedback form the community. I'm really excited to see how their new website progresses in 2023 and the fact that they can generate 4K a month already form a small site shows the potential that there is for generating revenue and for growing a project.
My preference would eb to scrap sportstalk and start a new sports project from scratch in a totally new format and without the terrible tokenomics that have plagued the project since day 1. I think that it would be much easier than try to walk back all of the issues that exist with the community right now and while that might not suit a lot of the larger stakeholders if the token is going to zero anyway then it would be the same result in the long run.
Maybe it can be fixed but there would be a lot to do and i don't even know if you can do it with an owner, dao and legacy isssues.
There is a lot to talk about but i still feel that a proper web3 sports site could be a huge draw with the right format.
I share the same opinion that a community that turns out to be in some way a company that should work for its users and cannot be somewhat decentralized because there are issues that cannot wait indefinitely to decide.
Undoubtedly, LeoFinance is an excellent example where having a team makes it possible to take important decisions, bringing developments to the community.
I can share that the first thing I thought of was creating a community from scratch without having the SPS history, but I think it is still possible for us to continue with the same community and manage to evolve from now on, even if this requires time and determination from the people who stand in front of the community.
My thinking is that by continuing with our community, this will be a marathon and not a sprint, but it doesn't take away from me trying to do something to make it grow.
That's why I decided to create a proposal in the community and understand what the community's will is.
I think that a tribe should be a business rather than just a community. It takes a lot of time and effort to set up and maintain a tribe then add in a monetized layer through hive and it's more than just a group of people sharing posts.
Sports has the potential to be a massive tribe if it's done right. A proper website, communities, mobile app and a million users over time.
Built from the ground up and with proper sustainable tokenomics and a good business model that creates income and pays for itself.
If enough people want to try and improve what we have already then i'll help where i can and try to make the best of it but what i would love to see is a real team of people that sit down and draw up a new site that is done right from the get go.
The community on sportstalk would soon move over once they see a much better product with long term potential.
Either option would be a marathon that could end in failure but that is every single start up. It would need start up funds but could generate a revenue soon after development and launch. Some to the team for further development and the rest back to the token holders through dividends or burns.
I completely understand the point of view, in fact I honestly came to think instead of creating a community with its own curated and inflationary token, a business model would be to create a community with a token with a max supply and that would not be inflationary and whoever buys the token would earn dividends that the front end publicity generates.
Undoubtedly, a tribe about sport has the potential to be something massive, as it is above religion and politics and is a topic spoken worldwide.
Trying to improve what we have now would not require a large investment that if we start completely from zero must exist.
But yes, you are absolutely right when you say that if we start something from zero that has value and a good long-term project, people would end up moving there.