I'm curious why your community get interested in the technology behind DRK right now ?
Why not before two or three or more months ?
This is incorrect, as you can see, for e.g. under
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.5799938 I am involved over 12 months now. I follow and post about DarkCoin since it first week. I even hold a small amount, I bought 10 days after release, with my last LTC.
I have huge respect for all german members of your team. I personally know Holger "flare" Schinzel over 10 years now. And often chat with vertoe and Aswan on FreeNode. I think paying full nodes is a great idea and Evan can code. I am really not biased against your project.
Obviously I know, no technical educated member post in your main thread today and why your community is now this way. But it is not a good situation for your project and the whole altcoin space.
Why I dont post at DarkCoinTalk.org? Because I dont have enough time, to read so many different boards. I am interested in BitShares, Ethereum, Ripple, MaidSafeCoin, NEM and many more coins. That's why I demand/want discussion here and not in coin-specific forums.
I don't even have an account at forum.monero.cc.
Why I posted this observation:
1.) I was disappointed by the development. 3/4 of the last year friendly, objective discussions with (most) DarkCoiners was possible, even in your (spamy) main thread.
2.) I was shocked by the growing number of posters with this superiority-talk (DarkCoin overtaking BTC market cap next year, the talk about technology leadership against Bitcoin, increased arrogance & aggressiveness towards other projects (DarkWallet, BTC Sidechains) or (privacy) coins.
And the many many postings about price, coming bubble, next ATH, moon, etc. Sometimes your threads reads like an daytrading forum. All reminded me of alot of LTC or other failed projects.
It's ironic, when DarkCoin was new, DarkCoiners had alot to suffer from harassment done by LiteCoiners and some (Anti Altcoin) Bitcoiners. They should know how this feels and how toxic the LTC community got with this kind of attitude. Leading to many neutral people leaving the LTC community. And later to total lazyness and a loss of reality. The early DarkCoiners exactly noticed these problems resulting out of this, inside the LTC community back in early 2014. Now it looks like, history may repeat itself.
I hope for you it doesn't.
3.) And as I strongly believe in and experienced it alot in my whole business life, to have a friendly, open-minded, helpfull & enjoyable community is a HUGE Asset and very often a critical success factor, deciding who's company/project/network is going to win in the market.
So I felt inside my heart, I have to say what is on my mind.
We have to be careful to maintain our positive community spirit and climate, because as shown by DarkCoin now, if skilled people and know-how holders decide not to post. The project suffers alot and the problem is increasing even more.