You're welcome.
Hello,
Thanks for the new updates and the new page here.
Not trying to break from the past, simply move forward from where we were. You may bring up the issue of coin name in a separate post. It will be easier for others to follow and reply to it.
I always thought it better that if we were going to start a new page then we should have a new coin name to go with it, if a break from the past was really intended.
There is nothing that needed to be voted on. The reason for the previous topic being locked and the new one being started was due to an ongoing 18 hour assault of SPAM (excessive floods of emoticons and gifs), pure and hateful FUD as well as the normal kind, and a co-ordinated attempt to manipulate using the topic to promote a Pump and Dump attempt. There was no time to gather everyone in the community to call a vote. It took hours to get most of the crap cleaned up while preparing the new topic.
All of that should have gone to vote as well. I remember most people in the community wanted to keep the old page/name going for a while yet.
Yes.
Have the newly elected devs acted on their own accordance with this decision?
Despotic Dictators without any clue whatsoever, most of the time. We take community advice when we are completely helpless.
I was rather hoping they were community representatives and not new Presidents.
No, not at all. The old topic was not self-moderated and required the direct interaction of a severely overworked site moderator. We couldn't delete posts.
Bear in mind also the FUD posts could have quite as easily been deleted on the old page as they will be on this one.
We intend to keep it this way.
That said, I welcome Aleckloss, and all the other devs for their input and time with the coin. I see more good than bad going on.
The community lacks a sufficient insight and inside knowledge of how it all works or will work, and therefore not in a position to make cogent technically oriented informed DECISIONS. How would disagreements within the community be resolved if it were mob-rule? What if some of the community weren't who we thought they were, and turn out to be sabateurs? Not everyone who lurks here is on the up-and-up.
We intend to take the general community concensus and put it into effect. Somebody has to keep it orderly and sorted out. Top responsibility goes to me because I was chosen as best candidate. There were no objections. Robbert had the ultimate choice, anyhow. He took the community opinion into account when making his choice. LTCD was not created by the community. It was created by an individual. The final and ultimate choice was his to make.
His choice was me. I'm interested in the community input and opinion. Not bound by it. Just a point of fact. I'm not 'putting my foot down' on the subject of community, so don't go off the wrong way about this. I'm a nice guy, and I don't see that changing any time soon.
I would just prefer the community to be making decisions and not just have new people "in charge".