MightyX, I want to thank you for your immense contribution to this thread with real discussion and water tight arguments.
I do NOT think you're a troll ( that's rediculous ) and I think that Alexander has failed miserably in addressing the concerns that you've raised. Since he's not seeing them as constructive feedback but as unreasonable attacks made by a cynic, he's proving to me that either :
A - the Aircoin team is naive and unfit to control the premine
B - the Aircoin team is malicious and preparing to scam us at the first sign that the value of the coin is not rising anymore.
Again, thanks for the awesome razor-sharp posts. I'll be bookmarking for future refference. May I ask what your background is ?
kind regards, J
PS I am a miner and hold a significant ammount of AIR. ( hah, that name is suddenly very fitting )
Your post is entirely correct in regards to the TheMightyX's original post, found
here on page 20. We responded very quickly
with one of the most detailed responses in this entire thread, and praised him for his criticism. In that case, he was not anything close to a troll, we considered his post constructive feedback. Whether his argument is "water tight" is, at that point, a matter of opinion, but we received praise from many posts about our informed response.
He then complimented the team and expressed his interest to buy AIRcoin in response, on page 21. At that time, he posted in the buy/sell thread
looking to buy at the highest offer at that time. I feel that this demonstrates that our responses were sufficient, effective, and that he supported our currency strongly. He then added several good contributory posts
here and
here, close to page 28. The sun was shining and all was right with the world.
However, it was
after this point, on the same page (page 28) that he made a post marking a sudden departure from his stance at the top of the page,
now repeating the concerns we had previously answered (with answers he found satisfactory) in a more dramatic matter. This is certainly fine however, and his post was not inflammatory, if a little odd. When responded to by other members who
doubted his position, he responded with a
far more offensive post that demonstrated a clear breakdown of professionalism. That is
here, and that is the sole post that our team found unacceptable. His other responses were fine. It is also notable that many users pointed out the issues in his post as well, examples
here and
here.
We responded handidly, aware that this sudden departure was potentially part of a smear tactic to drive prices down for him to purchase. It also demonstrated, very clearly, aspects about the community that were detrimental to the eventual legitimacy and respect of Cryptocurrency as a financial instrument. Simply put: we wanted the old TheMightyX back, before his sudden turn on page 28, and saw no benefit to providing again the same answer that he found satisfying before.
His response to ours,
a double-post that continued his unusual formatting (which was not present in his original, awesome post) entered theoretical argument, and did not, again express real concerns that were not in his original post that we provided a satisfactory answer to on page 21. It was both unprofessional and potentially misinforming to other members of the community.
Insults were shared between him and another user and our team revised our policy to responding to such situations, and attempted to contain the argument. We found that to be unacceptable.Our final response, quite simply, explained that we were not going to discuss theories of human nature in attempt to answer questions that we had previously answered, from the same user who asked them originally. I realize now that it may have seemed that we were dismissive of his concerns, but as I hope this post conveys,
we had, 8 pages earlier with the same user, addressed these issues, and now saw no benefit to discussion if it would spark continued argument, insult, and potentially damage the professionalism of the coin. That is our position.
We support our users and answer any questions they have that we can answer. However, it is not our place to answer questions regarding matters of personal opinion and theories about human nature, and once we have answered a question to the best of our ability, it is not our place to continually repeat the answer to the same user either, and both of those actions damage our ability to support other users.
I, personally, do not think TheMightyX is a troll. I think he is attempting to be a smart buyer. It is in his best interest to be as inflammatory as possible, as it can cause individual to sell their AIRcoin low enough that he can buy at an optimal price. If he returns, at any point, with new questions in the respectful style of his original post, then we are of course going to respond. I am not, however, going to claim that is the situation and I hold no ill will toward TheMightyX, we just cannot continue responding unless he has new concerns expressed in a professional manner. That's the situation, and I hope this puts light on the confusion.
It is perhaps a bit of irony that TheMightyX's problems with the team rely on human nature and notions of trust, but we believe that Trust, the most difficult complexity with a coin of this nature, is formed by the relationships between the users of a coin and the team behind it and such emotional criticisms only serve to make it more difficult for the users and team to trust each other. That relationship, as we have seen in the previous days, has its ups and downs. It is not so much that our team serve unquestionably all demands of the users, but that we can recognize when a relationship has become problematic for both the users
and the coin. It is in our best interest not to do what is best for ourselves but for
ourselves and our environment, and this means praising comments that are good (like TheMightyX's original post) and condemning comments that hurt the community (like TheMightyX's later posts). We do not want you to think that we make these decisions irrationally, but that we are trying to demonstrate as much of our ability to protect ourselves and our users from the damaging comments that coincide with pump and dump schemes. When someone identifies a coin they enjoy, it is in their best interest to
trash it until the price is low enough they can buy in, and then allow it to return to normality. In a way, our treatment of these issues is a form of stabilization: we don't want a coin that can be damaged by words alone. And I think our actions demonstrates the importance of that issue.
But I can concede, our reaction's intent may not have come through in our post. However, as a development team we want to welcome TheMightyX with open arms to AIRcoin, and have no problem letting his concerns affect our actions (in fact, we HAVE revised our internal policies on transparency and how we deal with questions since, and he's taught us a bit in that regard) as long as it is in a
mature, professional, supportive manner.
I may be its leader, but the users are AIRcoin's army. Powerful as you, the supporters are, as long as our development team can maintain peace and improvement, this coin can thrive. But we
never dismiss any concern that we haven't worked at our fullest extent to use to improve ourselves. If this does not satisfy you, if you question our motives or our intent, sit down with us. Send us a message. Post here directly to us asking questions. We are not Big Brother, we want to learn as much from the supporters of our coin as they do from us. But please be mature and as professional as we are about it, and we can then begin to trust each other more.
AIRcoin is only the beginning of an amazing transformation that is taking place in the financial industry. This can't happen if communication between our users and our staff breaks down. I repeat, it is in our best activities, both staff and users of AIRcoin, to do what is in our
best interest and
the best interest of the environment. That is how we will be respected and come to the financial world on tall, even standing. That is how we win.
- Alexander
