and if you disappear?
We know you just as much as you know us. Trust works both ways
The interaction requirement is not for me. It is for everyone.
Your concern about me disappearing is valid. I did not think about this. Maybe the idea from ErebusBat was good. If I provide a signed list showing seat distribution and make it public then maybe you are happy? For it to be valuable it must show username and donation address and number of seats owned. Maybe some members do not want this information public?
It's not so much that information needs to be public - although some sense that you're part of something more would help.
So far there's just a list of obligations put on us from somebody who aparently has the full confidence of Nasty - somebody I don't know and yet I'm supposed to trust he's gonna handle my data, payouts, handle the sale of seats and properly represent whatever the website lets me do - and yet the site doesn't give me anything.
I can't see any real reason to visit unless I'm (a) really very bored and I should visit to make sure I'm not kicked or to see if there's a vote, (b) I want to buy/sell a seat. The site barely mentions and doesn't show any connection to what we've invested in.
The current value of a seat is some value you have to recalc from the past sale of a seat. How many seats have been sold, at what price, when? When was the last payout, when can I expect the next payout (remember it's been the age of a bible since we saw a return - and on the forums only a spend of our dividends with no idea of what that means to us). Are people mostly selling or buying?
How has the mining op been performing? What's the daily/weekly/monthly hash rate/income been like? What's it likely to be in the future? Has there been any issues, has it been performing better than expected?
Block reward halving has happened and our past dividends have been spent - which means we can expect payouts to be half of what we remember from glbse happening maybe sometime in the days/weeks/months to come?
This is all the type of stuff a "fan site" could provide - but you have to think about how to encourage people to visit - other than some stick that they'll lose their seats/shares.
You have to give them some confidence that this isn't just some fly-by-night thing by somebody who barely has any presence in the community (low forum post count here, I've not seen you around in the litecoin forums or the btce exchange), that's gonna disappear and leave them high & dry again.
So who are you?
What do you do other than play with the "fan site"? How much time are you able to put into this?
What's your experience and why is this important enough to spend your free/full time on? What's your operating costs for running the site and how much/often should we try to help out with covering them?
Keep in mind .bit domains are all well and good - but most people won't have their machine/net setup to resolve them and they're not recognised by the main DNS providers or connected to the majority of the DNS infrastructure.
