Quote from: stomachgrowls on July 12, 2018, 07:00:37 PM

Quote from: buwaytress on July 12, 2018, 11:44:36 AM

$5 or $500, at least this academy recognises that the best person to write the whitepaper is the project owner. There's no substitute really. Of all the things projects outsource, the soul of the project is one that shouldn't be. Hire someone to edit, clean, tidy up, sure. Another to create marketing one pagers and presentations out of it, of course.

But no, never to write your whitepaper. Would you outsource deep sea diving and brain surgery if that were your profession? (To use the examples on the website itself).

Definitely agree to this one which if you do have an idea into your mind about a certain project i cant think of that i would let others do write of the whitepaper which this is tending to be the backbone of your entire project and no other people would able to put out every single detail of it which is on your mind and as you have said they can either edit, check for grammar errors and any related things but this would only be their job no other than that.

The whitepaper is the soul, as I said. Maybe the coding later on and the infrastructure, should all be the brain and the heart, and you can always plug people into it. But the conception of the idea. The why and the how. That's probably way underestimated and the reason why so much crap is out there. BIPs published here are currently many times better than the standard WP fare in just so many aspects.

Quote from: intellicorepress on July 13, 2018, 03:27:31 PM

Quote from: buwaytress on July 12, 2018, 11:44:36 AM

$5 or $500, at least this academy recognises that the best person to write the whitepaper is the project owner. There's no substitute really.

Exactly. Except maybe a writer who becomes so familiar with the subject that they practically become one of the project owners.

How would that be possible unless the project launched without a whitepaper? The subject isn't enough for a whitepaper, though said writer could certainly be a good critic or peer reviewer... which again goes back to the earlier point I made. By all means, get your WP peer reviewed, get it looked at and do whatever you need to professionalise it. Add a better communications slant. But there's no logic to having a WP written by someone else other than the project owner. If the project could work that way... I'd say it's a pointless project.