Quote from: Jabbawa on August 30, 2016, 07:53:41 PM

Being efficient and accurate is very different and much easier than being sensitive, diplomatic and courteous.

Except we are not insensitive or undiplomatic. We froze the funds of Child_Harold (which I warned everyone about extensively before he scammed for like 100 000 dollars), I spend hours weekly on helping out people who didn't claim in the 6 month auto-claim period and if you ask anyone that works with me I doubt they would describe me as someone who isn't courteous. But frankly I don't care, if you want to have that view, be my guest.

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You guys clearly have many skill sets, but I think it is quite obvious to everyone that your communication skills are limited to getting the point across; you don't have friendly or warm personas in your dealings with the community and you haven't inspired great feelings of filial unity.

We could be prince charming, or we could get stuff done. You can't have both. Why? As soon as you assume the role of a babysitter everyone will bombard you with their trivial issues or things that are out of your control. I say this because I have experience with it. I think everyone agrees that it's better that we spend time and energy making sure IOTA succeeds, but never do we act disrespectful to anyone, except trolls/scammers of course.

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Rather than snapping back with justification and defence (as I'm sure you will want to do) why not simply acknowledge what is a pretty modest weakness? A lot of communication could have been handled better. It's no big deal, it's not your remit. I'd rather you were blunt (also infers 'insensitive') as you are dealing with business and real world application.

I don't care if you consider being honest and efficient a 'weakness', but what I take issue with is this mantra of "their communication skills are their weakest point", we are brutally honest and clear because we have to deal with 1000+ people. There is no way to get personally involved in each person, so instead a blunt approach is the best for everyone from an effective altruistic POV.

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I was a community manager for 6 years, the skills required to galvanise and grow a community are quite different and much more common than the skills you have. I wish you'd just listened to us earlier and got yassin or someone to act as your community manager (I'm retired and not volunteering lol). Wink

Disagree. I said 100 times that "community managers emerge" and used Yassin as the numero uno example 100 times, but (his own wish) he didn't want to be any official community manager, which we of course respected so we didn't enforce anything on him. Community management is making sure people understand what is important and what isn't. Which we have done extremely efficiently, if I had taken any other approach we would not have IOTA Foundation, everything I predicted came true^10 in regards to donations dropping off once people started associating IOTA with imaginary real world profits. I said this back in October after several years in this space, because that is human nature.

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I mean you no disrespect David, none of us are perfect and you have done amazing things worthy of great praise and respect. You have earned the right to be a little acerbic, but don't bother defending the accusations of insensitivity, just own it and move on.

You are free to have whatever opinon you want of me, but I encourage you to take a look through the times I have been what you deem 'disrespectful', I cannot recall a single time I have not been proven right, but you are free to give me an example where I have been. Usually my approach ends up filtering out the lunatics and scammers, a side effect of this is that I might appear 'too blunt' to some, but in all honesty it's to ensure the longevity of the project. Neither me or any of the other IOTA core members can get emotionally invested in every single individual or their issues, it would mean the entire project comes to a halt.

So again: feel free to say/think whatever you want of me/us, but as someone who is religiously attached to rationality and objective truth I will continue to point out when you are wrong.