Topic: [CLOSED] IOS - Signature & Avatar Campaign | Up to $150/week - page 4. (Read 24028 times)

Yay, good and long awaited news. Damn you Choina and your internet censorship! Welcome back MadZ.

A big relief to see manager back! Welcome back Madz!

I think what everyone had was merely a natural response to the stressed out situation here. There is no right or wrong feeling I believe. 

We have seen the worst than this before.

We are glad you made it here safely! Power to the IOST as well.

Good to see you are back Madz 

The escrow address is being refilled in the next few days. I am also adding 5% from my own payment in addition to the other 5%. Please keep in mind that payments are pegged to USD values, so price fluctuations over the past few weeks will not affect the amount you are being paid now.

Hello everyone! I would like to start by saying that I am currently in touch with the IOST team and will be receiving funds within the next few days to cover the payments that have been missed over the past 4 weeks (in addition to this final round). On behalf of the IOST team, I would like to sincerely apologize for this delay. While I am sure many of you blame IOST for this, that blame is entirely mine, as I will explain below.

Before getting into that, I understand that many of you may have left the campaign for other opportunities during this time period. I would like to assure these people, as well as those still in the campaign, that they will receive full payment for the weeks they have been active. Additionally, the IOST team will be adding a 5% bonus to all payments as additional compensation for this delay.

With that out of the way, I would like to personally apologize for my lack of communication during this time period. I am sure you are all probably wondering where I have been. Am I dead, or, even worse, am I scammer? Fortunately, I am neither, however, I don’t blame you if you wish I was the former at this point. You deserved better, and I am sorry for failing you as your campaign manager.

As Cinazhang mentioned, the reason for my absence is that I have been in China for the past few weeks. This is a country I have never visited before, and although I was aware of the fact that internet access would be restricted, I improperly prepared myself for how severe these restrictions would be. I only bought one VPN before coming, and it has not worked since I got here. While I knew Telegram and Google would be blocked, I honestly did not expect Bitcointalk to be blocked as well. This was extremely naive of me, considering the government’s attitude towards crypto.

Under this assumption, I did not inform anyone at IOST I was traveling to China before I did so. This was another stupid decision on my part. As mentioned before, Telegram is also blocked in China. Telegram has also been my primary means of communication with the IOST team throughout these past few months. In light of this, it wasn’t until a few days ago that they actually knew why I was out of contact, and  it wasn’t until today that I was able to find a website that was not blocked through which to download a working VPN.

I say this because I would like to distinguish between myself and the IOST team. The reason I agreed to help out with this project is because I personally knew someone working with IOST. I had no relation with IOST prior to this campaign, and I am unlikely to afterwards. I offered to work on this because it is a project I think deserves more attention, and because I have been involved in this community for 5 years now. No doubt my reputation has probably been ruined after this, however, it saddens me to think that my failure should extend towards IOST. All I ask is that you direct your (deserved) negativity towards me and not towards this project.

Finally, I would like to say that I can not in good faith receive full payment for my mistakes over the past few weeks. While the IOST team has graciously offered as much, I will also be adding another 5% bonus to these payments from my own payment as a token of my apology, meaning all payments will be 10% above the amount stated in the original post. I know this can’t make things right, but I hope it goes a bit to express how sorry I am for the way I have handled things.

-Mad Z

I agree, I am very disappointed too, on how this was handled.   I was very excited about this new project and this is the only reason I have stuck with the campaign, ignoring all the red flags.

Even at the beginning of this campaign, MadZ was very unpredictable and often not on time with payments. I don't think he was on time with any of the payments if I remember right.
We all have real-life commitments like a job/school/kids but if you can't handle this part, then why would you engage in extra work here? I would not recommend MadZ for any future campaign management work.

I would have expected more implication from the IOST team too, since marketing is a very important part when it comes to crypto currencies that are just starting out.

Throwing in a 5% bonus seems to me like a very low price to pay for this (since they don't really pay for anything, they already own the coins).
Considering that week 5 is almost over and we still don't know a date when we're going to be paid or from which funds since the amount MadZ has is not enough to pay everyone.  

I still hope the IOST team will truly come back with way to compensate people and try to "clear" the name of IOST on BCT.

Still nothing even 3 days after an "official" response from the IOST team?

To be completely frank, i'm pretty disappointed about the performance of the IOST team and this probably reflects as much on the value of their project as well. This is a simple problem and I would expect brilliant minds who are competing against other I-o-T projects would have come up with a better solution.

I understand MadZ is in China but how difficult is it really to use the internet? Do we even need to depend on MadZ alone? Just my 2 cents.

Check the post above of Yvonne

@Cinazhang

Thanks for the information, now we knew that the reason why MadZ can't contact us or to make a transaction it's because of he/she's in China which is I think they prohibited the use of cryptocurrency and the China is taking down MadZ VPN.

MadZ didn't abandon us, he/she just can't do anything to contact us or to make payments. Is it right?

That isn't much of a reason for a general to abandon his soldiers at war front! All the same, it is good news to know MadZ is alright and that the IOST team is now on top of the situation. Thanks for heeding our sos call @Cinazhang.

He's been in China and apparently they've been cracking down on VPN's and he's been struggling.

@yvonnexhaha

Thanks for this annoucement. Good to see that someone from IOST team is concerned and ready to solve this unfortunate issue, because bounty participants already started to leave campaign.

If you can, please also share any information about the reason of MadZ absence.

We will work until the end. After all, this information is the only thing that we need in order for us to keep working for you. Hope that it will be alright on your end.

Hi all, I am an official representative of the IOST team.

First, I would like to sincerely apologize on behalf of the entire Internet of Services Foundation for the delay of payment during the past month.

Second, we were able to get in touch with MadZ yesterday and will be solving this issue as quickly as possible. We will make sure that everyone is compensated for the work they have done within the parameters of the campaign, and will also add a 5% bonus to the amounts you are owed as way of apology.

Lastly, we truly appreciate the work you have done to spread IOST across the crypto-sphere and hope that you will continue to interact with our community going forwards!

We understand that you have already been kept waiting far too long, but we ask for your patience as we work with MadZ to to remedy this situation.

Maybe need more time for an announcement from Madz. I heard He's been in China and apparently they've been cracking down on VPN's and he's been struggling.

At last! Some good information to hear. It makes the wait worthwhile, considering you will pay us at the end of the campaign. And I know that you will, right? 

Thanks cinazhang! Finally there's a good news for the participants who patiently wait for an update. Good to hear madz is fine.

Thanx for the update. I knew it MadZ would come through.

At last, they have given us specific direction as where this campaign were leading to. Anyway, hope this week 5 of campaign will end up successfully as well us the settled payment for the whole 5 weeks. We appreciate how IOST team responded with our concerns regarding this matter.

Finally some light over the matter!

Waiting for the response eagerly.