The claims made by @rawbe are completely untrue. Splinterlands did not pay me to come here, and up until I was actually on payroll as community manager, I have never received a single penny from Splinterlands in exchange for promotions. The only thing I ever received was 100 packs that they gave me to use as giveaways because my stream caught their attention and they thought I was making good content. I did not request them, and there were no strings attached or even guidelines on how I was to give them away (I gave most of them away every time I got a chicken kill on stream). When I first started playing Splinterlands I didn't even try to reach out to the devs, and not once have I ever requested payment for any promotions nor have they ever offered any payment for promotions. All of my Splinterlands content has been 100% organic.
As for my CM position, they posted the job opening and tagged everyone on Discord. I applied, and I got it, thanks in large part to my existing relationship and status with the Splinterlands community.
I thought as much but I didn't want to speak for someone else. I figured you would want to clear up the unintentional misinformation so I tagged you. Thanks for stopping by and doing just that and thanks for the work you do for Splinterlands and its community.
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Well all of this has come to light from an independent investigation since SPLINC starting offering deals which are actually included in the SPS white paper. SPS exchanged hands in marketing deals which bulldog was a part of. I can substantiate many of my claims so to say everything I am an eye witness to is untrue as well as things that have been revealed in audit seems to be a bit of a character assassination against me after I tried to make some good faith characterizations about him speaking in defense of struggling low ranked people. If I am making libelous claims, people are welcome to reach out legally to correct the record. I will appreciate the disclosure of such a court proceeding as it will give me access to more information. Many former Splinterlands players have reached out to me so there is information that I am privy to but can't reveal at this time. I have been doing my best to take a more nuanced and neutral stance and to understand both sides' perspective but its difficult when certain parties will just make blanket statements that everything I say is wrong rather than pinpointing exact errors. It's not like Bulldog provided any evidence. He just made a statement which could be true or false based on evidence. And you're just taking him at his word.
You and him provided the same amount of proof, a statement with different claims. I already had a good indication Bulldog applied for his position before he said as much. I was in discord (spent more hours there then I would like to admit) when the file was supplied for anyone who wanted to apply to be a volunteer. He wasn't a team member at the time but became one shortly after said file was shared. Thus its easy for me to believe his claim of applying and not being poached. I just didn't mention so earlier in this conversation as I didn't want to speak for someone else so I tagged him and he cleared up the misinformation.
BullDog very clearly pointed out that he applied for his position and wasn't poached as you suggested. He also very clearly said he wasn't paid for his created content but did get some unexpected assets to give to his viewers (Packs which can be varified in his streams as I watched some of them). From where I'm sititng it looks like things were very clearily pinpointed. You are free to disbelieve and/or disagree with those statements of his but you can't say things weren't pinpointed when they clearly were. I don't feel as anyone has attacked your charactor, you are the one making claims against someone which said person responded to.
SPS reaches the hands of every person who is even remotely part of the Splinterlands game. Holding cards (here is some SPS) Holding DEC (Here is some SPS) Holding SPT (here is some SPS) Holding land (Here is some SPS). Dropping SPS to streamers is no different than the prementioned drops even if the drop is coming out of a different pool of SPS tokens. Feel free to link the portion of the SPS Whitepaper that you speak of and your exact grievance with it. To be clear I'm not saying the things you say hold zero weight. From my understanding there is a streaming group that gets dropped SPS. Who and when certain people joined that group is unknown to me. How much they get dropped is also unknown to me. I haven't paid much attention to it as I'm not a streamer and I have no interest in that share of the dropped SPS.
I think a lot of what happened is a misreading of what each other meant because I even tried to reaffirm that I was specifically talking about before Bulldog was hired as CM. So we're not even talking about the same part of the timeline. I wasn't making claims about how he got poached. I was specifically referring to how he was doing content for a star wars gacha game when he was approached to do splinterlands content. Also the whole point of what I was saying was how SL is more like a gacha than a card game and was talking about how they leveraged a content creator from a gacha and not from card games. Aggy has said on multiple occasions how they have reached out to people playing card games like hearthstone and MTG and no one would do their sponsored content. It didn't have anything to do with the CM position at all. That was much later.