What's concerning is that it took reddit minutes to post that information about the new developer after it was announced that he was joining the team, which means bitcoinbabys either knew or he's completely clueless and does no research on who he adds to the team. Both scenarios are bad, and he continues to display ignorance that can be construed as shady. You need less bitcoinbabys on board and more people like yourself, and people like bitcoinbabys shouldn't have any power toward critical decisions or team additions. Don't allow undeserving people to ruin what you're trying to accomplish, because this isn't a good look right now.
Imagine being on the outside looking in and being presented with this information. There's valid cause for concern, especially when Discord is full of people talking about price and telling people that they should buy with no care for what coin claims to offer. StrongHands is full of people that are only in it for the money, and you have the same people moving over to DAPS, and that's going to push away serious buyers.
Like I said, I did not condone that action. I'm not a part of that community or the (questionable) decisions it makes. Bitcoinbabys is as much of a member as anyone else, and I've tried to address this issue of "leadership" being displayed as a central authority here. For alot of the final say on things it's generally me who says if it seems like a good idea, since I think I have a good head on my shoulders for deciding long term implications of some things. I note your concerns and address them, and even think of some before they're brought up and address them such as the CEO title mishap. I want this project to be professional, real, and open.
Opening up the governance and allowing the whole community to decide their own leader is an idea I'm up to, with certain stipulations, obviously. I believe I have enough influence to form these kinds of decisions and help push peepcoin-DAPS to truly equal ownership of governance decisions amongst all. The idea behind the DAPSCore is to try to dovetail with this, to give an incentive structure to the "core" team of technical investors or otherwise. I will think alot about this, since I know how important it is. It's not an easy thing to setup an open organization AND structure it at the same time by virtue of how these things are. Some things will get said that aren't official, or things will be produced that aren't exactly correct on details. This is why I've gone to the length of streamlining the social media and making sure it holds to certain guidelines. I've made sure NOBODY, nobody on the actual DAPS core team speaks about price, price predictions, telling people to buy, etc.
On the topic of price predictions; In fact, I've chastised our team members before for posting a tweet with a link to just markets, instead of posting a link to information. I do not believe we're here to get people to buy a coin, but to look into our ideas and decide for themselves the value of them. Anyone talking about price isn't considered any way to represent the DAPS development, but I will note that leaders and mods should not talk about price either.
I've yet to see it happen myself, but I put out additional guidelines about the moderators and leaders. Anyone associated with DAPS, moderating communities, etc will not be allowed to discuss price or price predictions in chats without being removed from any responsibilities, no tolerance. I do not accept using a position to pump or shill a coin, no matter what it is. If you find leaders, moderators, etc who do these actions please tell me and I will address it.
And don't get me wrong, I appreciate your honesty and kind words. I just hope that I can help make this project more than simply a dream for the people involved. Also if you wanna check out the whitepaper it's pretty much done, we will be posting it on the website as it's up but I think you'll like it.
edit: wow I mess up spelling when I'm tired