Topic: Why do ICO Companies Continue to use Slack? - page 2. (Read 1216 times)
I believe that slack is suitable for communication and sharing information. moreover, you can easily talk to someone you like on slack and cause of that reason, many ICOs love to use slack. However, there are some exception which people using slack in order to make the Scam ICOs look real so that they can easily steal people money
On slack, you don't just wonder around and find projects like you could let's say here, on this forum. No, the only people joinning slack channels are ones who are interested in a specific project.
So there are no bystanders or just random people not familiar with a project popping up. Only people who agree with the project and people who disagree gets piled on and banned (which is why I'd guess it's sole wildly used for ICOs as the voice of reason or opposition can be silenced or ignored easier).
That makes it a terrible hugbox.
And it's also terrible feature-wise. Starting with the terrible search system which makes finding relevant info in the sea spam, circlejerk and just general noise just annoyingly hard.
So there are no bystanders or just random people not familiar with a project popping up. Only people who agree with the project and people who disagree gets piled on and banned (which is why I'd guess it's sole wildly used for ICOs as the voice of reason or opposition can be silenced or ignored easier).
That makes it a terrible hugbox.
And it's also terrible feature-wise. Starting with the terrible search system which makes finding relevant info in the sea spam, circlejerk and just general noise just annoyingly hard.
For ICO we need a platform where the admins have options to ban ETH addresses to be shared. I don't know if any of them is out there but there must a software banning adresses starting with 0x there.
I want to begin by saying that the Slack app is a very valuable application and allows for the management of community communications in an orderly and efficient manner. The community manager can set various channels within their slack channel that allows segregated posts, some allowed for the company only and some for general participation.
I started joining various slack channels as I started following ICOs as it is the easiest way to get real time information from the company. The companies have moderators that are available to answer all kinds of questions and concerns. From missing contributions to just questions about the ICO, they can answer.
It has also been a big tool for me as a blogger and writer about ICOs to get accurate data from the company directly.
Slack and Security Issues
Built in the slack application, is the slackbot which can send messages to you directly. What has been happening is that the slackbot is sending scammy messages in these groups. Posting incorrect ETH addresses and asking you to take some action not authorised by the company. They have been guilty of massive phishing.
The simple question is, why do these companies continue to use Slack as the manner of communication if this issue is known. I spoke to the CEO of one of the current ICOs and he said that it is difficult to migrate the slack participants to another solution. He added that there really is not another solution that meets the requirements. He had already turned off the slackbot functionality.
We will have to see if companies continue to use this app for their communities and communicating with them in the future. Is there a comparable app out there? There has to be a better solution.
Just my thoughts.
More of my thoughts here:
https://urbancrypto.com/category/blockchain-my-thoughts/
I started joining various slack channels as I started following ICOs as it is the easiest way to get real time information from the company. The companies have moderators that are available to answer all kinds of questions and concerns. From missing contributions to just questions about the ICO, they can answer.
It has also been a big tool for me as a blogger and writer about ICOs to get accurate data from the company directly.
Slack and Security Issues
Built in the slack application, is the slackbot which can send messages to you directly. What has been happening is that the slackbot is sending scammy messages in these groups. Posting incorrect ETH addresses and asking you to take some action not authorised by the company. They have been guilty of massive phishing.
The simple question is, why do these companies continue to use Slack as the manner of communication if this issue is known. I spoke to the CEO of one of the current ICOs and he said that it is difficult to migrate the slack participants to another solution. He added that there really is not another solution that meets the requirements. He had already turned off the slackbot functionality.
We will have to see if companies continue to use this app for their communities and communicating with them in the future. Is there a comparable app out there? There has to be a better solution.
Just my thoughts.
More of my thoughts here:
https://urbancrypto.com/category/blockchain-my-thoughts/
Are you stating that hackers are able to hack into the respective Slack community and perpetrate themselves as the SlackBot and send scam related questions? Can you expand more on this?
We had to set it up because everyone else uses it 
Personally, I passionately hate Slack, maybe not the grand idea of it as open end collab tool, but horrible implementation...
Personally, I passionately hate Slack, maybe not the grand idea of it as open end collab tool, but horrible implementation... 
On slack, you don't just wonder around and find projects like you could let's say here, on this forum. No, the only people joinning slack channels are ones who are interested in a specific project.
So there are no bystanders or just random people not familiar with a project popping up. Only people who agree with the project and people who disagree gets piled on and banned (which is why I'd guess it's sole wildly used for ICOs as the voice of reason or opposition can be silenced or ignored easier).
That makes it a terrible hugbox.
And it's also terrible feature-wise. Starting with the terrible search system which makes finding relevant info in the sea spam, circlejerk and just general noise just annoyingly hard.
So there are no bystanders or just random people not familiar with a project popping up. Only people who agree with the project and people who disagree gets piled on and banned (which is why I'd guess it's sole wildly used for ICOs as the voice of reason or opposition can be silenced or ignored easier).
That makes it a terrible hugbox.
And it's also terrible feature-wise. Starting with the terrible search system which makes finding relevant info in the sea spam, circlejerk and just general noise just annoyingly hard.
There are plenty of messaging apps out there. It all depends on what the dev team is comfortable using. We have a Slack, but no one really liked it so we switched. Slack is great but I'm not sure it's an order of magnitude greater than any other messaging app. I also think there is a certain perception that having a Slack channel makes you more legitimate in the eyes of the community, which is extremely unfortunate.
I want to begin by saying that the Slack app is a very valuable application and allows for the management of community communications in an orderly and efficient manner. The community manager can set various channels within their slack channel that allows segregated posts, some allowed for the company only and some for general participation.
I started joining various slack channels as I started following ICOs as it is the easiest way to get real time information from the company. The companies have moderators that are available to answer all kinds of questions and concerns. From missing contributions to just questions about the ICO, they can answer.
It has also been a big tool for me as a blogger and writer about ICOs to get accurate data from the company directly.
Slack and Security Issues
Built in the slack application, is the slackbot which can send messages to you directly. What has been happening is that the slackbot is sending scammy messages in these groups. Posting incorrect ETH addresses and asking you to take some action not authorised by the company. They have been guilty of massive phishing.
The simple question is, why do these companies continue to use Slack as the manner of communication if this issue is known. I spoke to the CEO of one of the current ICOs and he said that it is difficult to migrate the slack participants to another solution. He added that there really is not another solution that meets the requirements. He had already turned off the slackbot functionality.
We will have to see if companies continue to use this app for their communities and communicating with them in the future. Is there a comparable app out there? There has to be a better solution.
Just my thoughts.
More of my thoughts here:
https://urbancrypto.com/category/blockchain-my-thoughts/
I started joining various slack channels as I started following ICOs as it is the easiest way to get real time information from the company. The companies have moderators that are available to answer all kinds of questions and concerns. From missing contributions to just questions about the ICO, they can answer.
It has also been a big tool for me as a blogger and writer about ICOs to get accurate data from the company directly.
Slack and Security Issues
Built in the slack application, is the slackbot which can send messages to you directly. What has been happening is that the slackbot is sending scammy messages in these groups. Posting incorrect ETH addresses and asking you to take some action not authorised by the company. They have been guilty of massive phishing.
The simple question is, why do these companies continue to use Slack as the manner of communication if this issue is known. I spoke to the CEO of one of the current ICOs and he said that it is difficult to migrate the slack participants to another solution. He added that there really is not another solution that meets the requirements. He had already turned off the slackbot functionality.
We will have to see if companies continue to use this app for their communities and communicating with them in the future. Is there a comparable app out there? There has to be a better solution.
Just my thoughts.
More of my thoughts here:
https://urbancrypto.com/category/blockchain-my-thoughts/
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