Not everyone is selfish, sometimes you have to give to receive.
Selfishness has nothing to do with it. It's about IQ points. Faucets are useless, that's why nobody does it. BTC was created in a crypto vacuum. DRK was not. No alt has been helped by a faucet. Ever. No person has everbought something useful with 0.00000001 of the alt that they got for free. It doesn't do anything.
I'm not a fan of dust faucets for sure, but if a faucet can give an amount that is perhaps ten times the transaction fee, it may very well get people interested in your currency.
Yes, really. Useless dust getting deleted/forgotten on some silly crashed windows machine doesn't do any good for the coin or the owner who eventually realizes that 0.00000001ALT doesn't buy anything. Neither does 0.01ALT.
Georgem made [N]SFW gifs for fun and made more DRK than that. I gave him several DRKs. Not that I thought the .gifs were worth it, but that he was actually DOING somethinig instead of whining for free shit. Do something useful for the community to get something from the community. Oh, wait, currency != community. This isn't SovietCoin.
Even smart panhandlers will give you a stupid flower or a sign-language flyer while pretending to be deaf... At least they're doing something in exchange instead of just sitting there wanting free stuff. It might not be a fair trade, but it's something to recognize that legitimate economics requires give and take. Not only does the faucet do no good, it encourages entitlement douchebaggery.
I've never used a faucet but liked the idea because people new to cryptocurrencies could get in easily and have some fun with it. I guess they can be misused.
As far as I can tell, as long as the money given out isn't useless (dust) then is it such a bad idea?
Imagine a person new to cryptocurrencies, they can't use the bitcoin faucet because they are dust, so they look elsewhere and find a darkcoin faucet, they get used to it, become a darkcoin supporter, now they load $100 on an exchange and then buy Dark with their cash.
That helps your cause doesn't it?
The problem is that it helps a useless/valueless coin get started. DRK is already way past started.
DRK's problem is that it wasn't meant to be started so fast... The idea of DRK is so potent that people jumped on the bandwagon and we don't even have a final RC yet...
If it had no value then giving it away in useful amount would make sense. But it does have value. It is easily obtainable.
If you want to give away $100,000 worth of DRK that is likely to be worth at LEAST 50x that much n the not too distant future, go ahead... Nobody is stopping you. But, the fact that you're sure as hell not going to do that should explain why there are no faucets...
Faucets are a crutch to get a coin ahead. DRK is already way past that point. It has too much value already for anyone to be stupid enough to give it away. Thus, there's no need for a faucet, eh?
