ANNOUNCEMENT: Important update for the BiblePay Community:Change is important, change can and will change your life! Welcome to some new changes.
As Rob posted a few days back, he is looking for someone to "Take Control" of community and offload some of the workload from him.
This is a win for decentralization, and makes the core team larger while offloading some of workload from the existing folks.
With this in mind, tmike and I are going to be sharing the burden of this position, and will look for others that can aid us in this process.
* Social media accounts are being split up for ownership, and control will be shared among several core users, this helps to limit the "single man" liability.
* Jaap now has primary primary control over Reddit, and maintains the Telegram
* I now have access the the main biblepay twitter account, and will help manage the team that can post tweets on our behalf.
* Biblepay Official forums will be transitioned from Rob to a new host, and maintained by tmike and myself. Once this is completed we will have some guidelines for having better discussions over there, and will allow for some more freedom than this ANN thread, as well as some more focused discussions.
For those that have been around, you have seen the stuff that has gone on and you know what my stance has been, and should have an idea what it would take for Rob to allow these changes to proceed. We have had some good discussions in private and prayed for Rob and the future of Biblepay. Which helped to facilitate this and shows his willingness to work with us to improve things.
What we are looking for from the community is a clean start. I am not taking this lightly, and you should not either. New community guidelines going forward:*
Be respectful, think about the children and the lives we are trying to bless through this project. Speak as if they are reading each and every reply.
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Post deletions will be limited to topics that have personal or confidential information only. We're working with Rob on the guidelines for this since currently he is the only one with access to delete messages. (Please, don't make this an issue by posting garbage
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Work with each other on understanding. We all have different backgrounds, pains, motivations. Let's seek to unify for the sake of our Lord and those we want to keep blessing.
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tmike and I will work on support, and relaying topics back to the devs as needed. User support is still encouraged, and welcomed!
If everyone plays along, we can transform this community from a hostile environment to something worthy of representing Christ and the original vision of this project.