I ran the first and biggest bounty thread and managed over 2M private fund so far for Nxt, so I believe I can put some words here as one:
I am for open bounty systems, and the committee which may hold the fund should have only one function: to approve the bounty when it is voted by the community pool or verified by the core devs (or both), and then release the bounty fund when the winner is determined by the community or the devs (or both).
This committee should not be paid, the members are volunteers who take the pain and give the time to secure the funds and to allocate funds for decided bounties (believe me, it will take so much time and responsibility). Also among the holders there should be one or two big stake holders (with the main key to the funds accounts) who have not much financial motives to rub and run..
Also one essential condition, no matter you choose the open bounty or the detailed planning system, all approved bounties should be free with equal opportunity for anyone to participate. Any pre-assignment or giving more tech-info support to some special participants of a certain bounty should only result in elimination of that participant from the competition, by the committee's authority!
Nah...This is basically just a bounty system, we have already tried this and it just doesn't work.
It's not efficient enough. The entire point of releasing the marketing fund is so we can get to cracking.
There'd be soooo much stuff done already if the community wasn't so goddamn paranoid and unable to come to any conclusions.
Putting everything up for vote for the entire community will take too much time.
That's why I'd rather want a big committee. Like 10 people who have a proven track record of being deeply involved in NXT.
As for having a big stack. I don't think that is a fair requirement at all. Just because someone got lucky and got in early on NXT does not give them any more credibility. Not at all, unless that person has also donated big amounts. If not: the person is nothing but a random person who got lucky with NXT. That is simply not a achievement that should weigh anything. We already have plenty of examples of BIG stakeholders (10+ million) who still sign up on giveaways for as little as 1 NXT.
Greed never ends so your reasoning doesn't hold water.
Who are you?? you have 3 weeks btt history!
nextcoin.org forum, global moderator, been leading several marketing campaigns since mid december.
You speak so aggressive with active Nxt people, this is rude, no matter what your reasoning are.
Nextcoin.org is not the official forum of Nxt community, worse it has dgex origin, much worse there has been a bounty pool scandal there (the keeper who has been a moderator there, just ran with the accumulated donation pool money). Also as I said in early December, I could not get how some members of nextcoin forum has 5 stars hero status, though the entire forum has less than three months history?! (when I said it was less than 3 weeks history)
The point of having some well known and rich stake-holders among the fund keepers is that, a person holding 20M and having a nice btt and also Nxt history and reputation would less likely rub and run away (but yes it could happen too, though the probability is very small).
omg.... I speak agressively to idiots who either lie about something or someone who over and over and over again mess up the process. The fact that you are so unaware of nextcoin (IT HAS 4500 members) is a testament to your ignorance of NXT in general.
As for your attack on dgex: DGEX did indeed fuck up with the fees. He has admitted it and lowered the fees. He has explained himself and whether you accept his explanation or not is 100% irrelevant for this discussion. The fact that you are trying to discredit the work and 4500 membership by appealing to this topic in a way to try to discredit every nextcoiner is just disgusting.
And your point about DrexMe, well he was a trusted member here too. EpicThomas was exclusively here on BTT. As if someone of us could've known that a dedicated member would do that shit? Again a cheap ass attack on nextcoiners. Fuck you for that.
Me, nifty, salsacz and justabit all have origin back in nextcoin. We have collaborated since then. That is where we started our marketing campaigns. A LOT of what you see in the NXT ecosystem is due to nextcoin members, so please try to be a little more respectful and coherent when you speak of 4500 NXTers, ok?
I have already talked plenty with CfB about this on Skype. I have proposed several ways to ensure that noone runs away with the NXT. Among these are: if you volunteer you ahve to reveal your identity to CfB, so if you bail, we know your identity. Seeing as this is voluntary noone should have aproblem with it.