I got a message from Chris asking me "are you a renewable producer at grcoin.com?".
I answered I am a Greencoin supporter but not (yet) registered as a renewable producer.
The next day I was kicked out of the Greencoin slackchannel by Chris.
What kind of behaviour is this?
Kicking Greencoin-supporters out and limiting their access to Greencoin information sources?
This will not help Greencoin at all. Very disappointing...
The #Producers channel is specifically set up for current renewable producers. The idea would be this is where producers could post comments, questions and concerns about their renewable systems and how it relates to greencoin (not that anyone has yet). This is certainly not to "limit access" about GreenCoin. I invited you before checking to see if you were a producer or not. You are still a member of the slack community. The slack community is brand new and has been used very little.
I take personal offense to the "behavioural issues" comment. First of all we were having a private conversation and you could've PM'ed me first to discuss. I certainly consider that to be a "behavioral issue," because I would not have treated someone else in this manner (a.k.a The First Law of Kindergarten). Second of all, and this applies to others as well, the community forum like Slack is set up for others to communicate among the other members. Do you have contributions to make to #marketing? #tech-dev? I haven't seen a request to join any of these other channels. I see a lot of "where' s this update / where's that update" all the time. Hopefully coming, but in the meantime, have you contacted me on where to donate cash for the developer fees? Have you asked how you could help if you have developer skills? Do you have lawyers breathing down your neck for a $50k tab or $1500 for the final movie payment? State registration fees? Corporate expenses? Hosting fees? Have you done anything to promote or otherwise grow the community? I get nothing out of this, I don't even have that many coins; they probably are mostly owned by some of the large producers and/or stakers (and I'm not even staking at this time due to the technical issues). The Foundation is a non-profit, which by definition loses money, and it most certainly pays me exactly $0 for my effort. If you're hoping to do absolutely nothing and punch a meal ticket in the future, you have that right, but I'm not going to sit here and take the negativity without response.
I've got one horse in this project and that's the holistic value of founding and seeing through the early stages of a purely peer-to-peer, free-market carbon emission trading mechanism. That's it. I do indeed appreciate anyone and everyone's support, but I have emotions too, and I definitely see what happened here very differently then how you do.
Taking a positive spin I hope to more users in the Slack channel as we start to grow. Defining some purpose to this growth this is what I was foreseeing:
- #general: Everyone is automatically a member of this channel. Foundation-level updates will be posted here. I'll also post them in this forum anyways.
- #random: Everyone is automatically a member of this channel. The Foundation won't post anything official in here, it is just for the users to banter.
- #producers: This channel is for current renewable producers. They will be automatically invited once they have joined the Slack community.
- #marketing: You can join this channel by request. It's intended focus is on specific marketing and promotion for GreenCoin.
- #tech-dev: This important channel is specifically set aside for development, security and technical aspects of the "coin" (blockchain software protocol).
I may add #web-dev shortly.