On 06/18/2015 02:00 AM, mray wrote: > Hi there, > > I have two concerns: > 1. We need losers. > 2. Users decide who they are. > > 1. > We need losers because we can't make a commitment to the network effect > without embracing the fact that distribution will differ extremely, even > to a degree where by far MOST projects will not be "winners". > > 2. > We already ask users to let go of *some* control of their finances, they > should at least be able to decide who gets a chance - and who does NOT. > A too strict filter on participating projects also makes finding enough > "losers" harder. I'd expect the "proper" projects to be more realistic > candidates anyway, though. We also could focus on presenting projects in > a way that highlights what we regard as valuable in snowdrifts context: > age, number of developers, number od translations, size of community, > global distribution of authors, usage statistics, whatever else might be > interesting. > > > Otherwise I mostly agree with your post. > > > Robert > >
I don't see why we *need* losers. I think we *accept* that there will be losers and that's okay. Snowdrift.coop is largely a consensus-building engine that coordinates the community and discourages fragmentation. Those qualities are good. But I wouldn't say that having losers is *necessary* for our success. I'd put it this way: if we have too much bureaucracy keeping out potential losers, that means we are taking too much top-down control and censorship instead of letting the consensus mechanism and the natural market make the decisions. I still see no problem with opening up the gates slowly by getting likely successful projects in first. Losers aren't *needed* per se… I certainly do not want to frame our system as having winners and losers even though that isn't crazy. We aren't forcing a zero-sum game where there doesn't have to be one because we'll encourage people to add funds to cover all their pledges (versus Flattr, for example, which makes no effort to increase the size of the pie — they just split up the pie into smaller and smaller pieces). -- Aaron Wolf co-founder, Snowdrift.coop music teacher, wolftune.com -- Aaron Wolf Snowdrift.coop <https://snowdrift.coop> _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.snowdrift.coop/mailman/listinfo/discuss
