Quote from: BrainShutdown on April 14, 2016, 10:26:52 AM

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Have you tried to put this questions on https://dashtalk.org forum?
All the tech guys are there and I'm sure they'll help you in no time.

+1, dashtalk or the public slack channel are way better for tech help:
https://dashtalk.org/threads/public-dash-slack-community.7937/

Quote from: toknormal on April 14, 2016, 12:36:03 AM

Quote from: TaoOfSaatoshi on April 14, 2016, 12:19:57 AM

Smooth and his cronies have basically backed us into a corner here for two years

rofwl !

Speak for yourself. They never backed me into a corner. (Nor, apparently Evan). I just invest in what I calculate has a future.

Quote from: TaoOfSaatoshi on April 14, 2016, 12:19:57 AM

I can't even begin to fathom how many people we may have lost out on during the first two years because of this. People with families, friends, skills to give.

I think what you're missing is the fact that a monetary medium is not a popularity contest. It either works or doesn't.

You're battling battling flies who's argument is already dead and buried and yet dismiss genuine monetary researchers who are trying to open up a secondary monetary tier for Dash.

That just baffles me.

I was a bit sceptical at first too Tok but in hindsight I've got in touch with a few folks I've got to know over the years on this forum about Dash and practically all of them have been swung by the trolling to some degree. These are smart people that wouldn't be easily swayed by empty talk but the trolls have had an effect none the less and that's just a very small cross section, there could be tens of thousands influenced by their BS at this stage and even discussion in this thread has been seriously affected by them.

Take the post above by r4vani for example, this thread is long and rambling so that post would probably get a new thread where it could be discussed in any depth and refereed to for similar questions in the future. Instead we're in a spot where any thread like that would be up to 5 pages of "instamine" spam and disruption of the topic before it can even get going and Dash has had years of that BS, so much so that a large part of the community doesn't follow discussions on this forum any more.

I've seen at least 10 posters take a new interest since Tao started on his campaign and that could already equate to a thousand or more taking a silent interest. The only message Dash needs to get across is "there's some genuine innovation going on here, take a look and see what you think", only a very simple message but the trolls have been very successful at silencing it and that has to stop.

EDIT: Btw Tok, a bit OT, this was linked in something else that was linked here and reading it was a real eye opener:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/08/what-is-debt-%E2%80%93-an-interview-with-economic-anthropologist-david-graeber.html