I don't think there's any reason to change your usernames, XMRpromotions. For one thing, there is no official leadership of Monero that people can really appeal to - sure, there is the "core" development team, but that is a loose organization at best with only two (afaik) publicly known individuals, one of whom has gone on to start a business and has been basically inactive re: Monero for around one year (davidlatapie). For another thing, americanpegasus is (I believe) somewhat sanctioned if not a part of the aforementioned core team, and he says retarded shit all the fucking time. At least you are generally polite (afaik) and not preaching like Monero is the one true way to eternal salvation.
@XMRpromotions
I recommend choosing a normal avatar name, just like the rest of us. It doesn't have to mention XMR.
You said it yourself: Monero is decentralized. It's not a company. So why choose a name and avatar philosophy that promotes Monero as if it were a company? (i.e harmoginous logo/avatar/handle). This just makes XMR look smaller than it really is.
By choosing a regular name (hell, even your own real name if you want) then you're helping Monero by underscoring Monero's decentralized nature. You are selling Monero's strengths.
That's real promotion.
You are correct, it's mostly about your twitter handle, since you are most vocal with that one. Regarding existing correspondence, you could just let them know your new handle and continue the conversation with your new handle? I don't see any issue with that.
All right, I'll start a thread later today to see what others think about it. I personally think creating a new handle/username would be the best course of action.
Keep it and keep up the promotion everyone is a volunteer.
talk about biting the hand that feeds. Well, not feeds this time per se, but the hand that gives. Here we have a dude that took it upon himself to contribute in any way he can, and this.
Herding cats.
and jwinterms comment. priceless.
I could go through the effort to scroll through all of bitcointalk and find various official sounding bitcoin avatars, but I won't. I also doubt that Bitcoin Jesus got sanctioned by the bitcoin core devs.
some of drama's comments may be valid; i.e., I'm company X and xmrpromotions contact me, so that must be official.
Perhaps a solution is just for xmrpromotions to just include in his cold-emails "hey, im just a dude, monero's cool, and it works, so I do this"
Monero devs have nothing to do with XMRPromotions, as far as I know. Therefore, the "promotion" is happening organically.
I disagree that the community is lazy. Rather, it tends to attract a larger proportion of developer types that are inspired by the technology. They donate their hard work to further the goals laid out by the core devs. Then there are community members like AmericanPegasus, who is genuinely a marketing force of his own. We are like internet construction workers steadily going about our tasks to build the future of money.
I appreciate your opinions (I posted some of them above so I could link back to them in one place from the getmonero forum). Because I don't want to derail this thread any more lets move here:
https://forum.getmonero.org/20/general-discussion/2413/https-twitter-com-xmrpromotions-twitter-handle
