First of, let me say that I was a huge fan of STRATIS back in June when they seemed to have the world by the balls, but after spending several months talking to team members and users and just observing the way they process and handle things, I can't say I am surprised at all at the deflatng volume and price of this otherwise great coin.
I strongly advise anyone who is thinking about investing this coin or anyone that is currently holding to either go the other way or sell all their STRAT immediately.
I made a sleeper account for 3 months, that does nothing but lurk and watched how the Slack deals with problems and how the mods deal with issues in general.
The results were not only horrifying, but also pathetically juvenile.
This happened 15 mintues ago today: https://imgur.com/a/WG2F9
Notice how low quality the exchange of comments are. This is pretty much how it is 24 hours a day. Some users have immunity to make fun of others while new members are berated and generally closed as soon as they sign up or complain once.
The mods spend their time banning people for shits and giggles or making posts a 12 year old would find immature. They are useless in dealing with any serious issues and instead prefer to meme and troll and ban new users who might have a problem.
If you DARE have a problem with STRAT, even a reasonable one, you will be mocked, muted and then banned without cause or explanation. I'm not talking about being rude, i'm talking about valid complaints. These people are emotionally high strung and cannot deal with the reality of their coin being walked all over by better projects.
Futhermore, notice how their invite system is nearly ALWAYS down. This is because spammers have made their Slack a haven, unsurprisingly because they like to ban kids and troll them, so the kids are doing the exact same thing back. They refuse to listen to any reasonable comments about porting over to Discord, a much better alternative and prefer to be stubborn and make their users endure with this annoying recurrence.
Also, the team will always tell you STRAT is the best and that it has the hardest workers without providing any actual proof of any of this. Using github or browsing some of their channels will allow you to see that some work is being put in, but other work, especially the basic stuff, is being neglected and their answer to this is always: Don't worry, we'll do it later, time to focus on the important stuff now.
This is because most of the mods (90%) are grown men who use Slack to behave like children, and have an edge on nearly all the other users because they bought VERY early. This gives the illusion that they are 'patient' when all they are doing it watching their money grow by increments of 20-50x even at this price.
As a side note, their roadmap, something users and investors have been requesting for months, hasn't been finished in several months even though it would take roughly 24 hours to finish up. This is indicative of the horrendous neglect these neanderthals make their investors and users endure.
This isn't a hate post, just an honest and objective account on what is going on internally. Stratis as a project has immense potential but the team is absolute garbage and the mods and team members, especially people like Krushang, lie openly to people in order to get them to invest and then never deliver on their promises. It's basically a press gang at this point.
For your own sakes, steer clear of this coin for 6-12 months until Christopher (the CEO) gets his shit together and decides to grow up and hire a professional team of marketing agents and communication advisors, on top of hiring mods who aren't childish and don't discriminate when handing out punishments.
Isn't this describing almost 99% of the coins out there now? Most are lying and you're funding lies. In the past, I would not be able to get 20k budget from my company to develop an app that can be marketed and now people are funding such app that would at most cost 350k to build, to the tune of 10 million. If this is not insane, tell me what is.