Even with transparent, honest guilds with the highest standards of integrity, there's always the danger that a person or group acting in concert begins to dominate an open network.
That's a good point. Until recently, Steem Guild wasn't even really transparent. It took a conversation with donkeypong just to get the recent update posts out of them...after four months of no information.
The project actually would work better without anyone knowing anything. Which is why Curie operated weeks underground before it was announced. There's just no way to do it easily if people are always suspecting like this (which i'd agree is fair enough, of course). Platform users are supposed to be creating content and have guilds like this looking over them without them even expecting it.
That's a good point. Until recently, Steem Guild wasn't even really transparent. It took a conversation with donkeypong just to get the recent update posts out of them...after four months of no information.
The project actually would work better without anyone knowing anything. Which is why Curie operated weeks underground before it was announced. There's just no way to do it easily if people are always suspecting like this (which i'd agree is fair enough, of course). Platform users are supposed to be creating content and have guilds like this looking over them without them even expecting it.