I rather think it's the other way around ... the Chinese bitmark.com is riding _our_ coattails.
The hard fork criteria outline proposed by Melvin Carvalho make good sense to me. As long as a majority of the community agree that it is a good think, I don't think it need be 100% unanimous.
I suspect that this will be one of those things we have to disagree on with regard to coattails as we view and interpret facts in different manners.
I was under the impression that development had rather stalled until late last year, and there was a new dev announced on twitter
https://twitter.com/BitmarkUpdates/status/779533000778342401 .
Maybe, when I was checking on BTM in March of 2015 and dev update saying he was not not being very honest with us.... or the orphaning issues that have persisted for a very, very long time on BTM, are all things that would make a the Chinese Bitmark Inc people thing, your know what, we can totally make bank off of this project's name and its kick arse reputation. Then they launched their website in August of 2015
https://web.archive.org/web/20150801012258/https://bitmark.com/ .... but you know that is probably fake too. (I will admit, I hoped like heck those guys might be taking over BTM.)
Now, frankly, if you searched Bitmark at any point during 2016 or the last part of 2015, you got the bitmark.com website or I did and had to scroll down to the bitcointalk thread. Also, bitmark.io and bitmark.co did not even show up... and still do not. Maybe, I was just typing "bitmark" wrong.
Now, Bitmark Inc had news right around the same time we started seeing development again, after Bitmark Inc got the 1.7 million funding. Also, if I have to link you to the twitter post from the BTM team's twitter post and the funding if Bitmark Inc, you are not doing you due diligence on coins/tokens.
Perhaps, you would be willing to tell me why you do not see it BTM as riding the coattails of Bitmark Inc's news, presumably you are watching both projects like me and have noticed the price tends to tick up with Bitmark Inc press. I know the news, we get from twitter and slack but new features without some concrete movement on the mining issues feels like a repeat of 2015 to me.
And yes, I want BTM to succeed but unless these chain issues get solved sooner rather than later (forks are always later, which is unsettling), I do not have a great feeling about the BTM.
Lastly, I'd rather be honest and wrong than clueless and bag holding.