Quote from: Meebo on January 03, 2014, 02:01:09 PM

Quote from: professorY on January 03, 2014, 12:02:06 PM

Quote from: Tututavi on January 03, 2014, 12:00:37 PM

Quote from: professorY on January 03, 2014, 11:58:35 AM

Quote from: Reece523 on January 03, 2014, 11:43:00 AM

It's pretty clear there is a coordinated effort going on to devalue QUARK.

Yeah, and that effort is from the Quark 'community' itself.

Can you explain it a litle further or is it just some rage?

Do some reading at the Quark forum and r/QuarkCoin.
It's pretty obvious this 'community' is eating itself.

Quark community has always been very "controversial", aggressive and emotional... also, since coin itself is new, there is still some undermining going on by supporters of other coins (this is currently not really that important and nothing to be afraid of).

At the moment, Quark community is pretty much split in half. I can see the arguments from both sides.

If you check almost any Quark thread, it will end up to be a flame-war between "Kolin supporters" and "Kolin haters".

I, for one, do not have anything against Kolin (he seems like a cool dude), but to be fair, I do not think that he should be considered to be "quark spokesperson" and really there is no reason to do it anyways (I have no clue why so many can consider one person to be a representative of an open source decentralized entity). Here's why:

Right off the bat: He has done so much for the Quark in the past and no-one can say otherwise. On the other side, some of the bad Quark publicity also falls on him.

Currently, only thing he does is posts about Quark and you all know how he writes ( Cheesy

, I have lost count of how many people he has labeled as "WoW players with no lives and girlfriends"). He is very proud person who can not take criticism. I was like that also, but experience as a systems analyst has only thought me one thing. Humbleness and straight facts win people over (quite easily). No matter how many times you have to repeat one thing, you will have to find strength to do it again for the next (or same) person who asks. Arguing with a mindset that "other person is probably correct, but I would like to show him my point of view" is the best and works all the time. I can rarely do this. Kolin can NOT do this. At least on forums, where most of the hatred is generated. Also, I don't think that he can accept, that Quark has many active promoters and he probably feels threatened by them, which in turn causes drama and confusion in every thread (you know, "pack leader" thing, although no election for "pack leader" was actually held).

Now, when Kolin opens his mouth and talks (in a youtube video, for example), it is entirely different matter. He seems like cool knowledgeable guy who really cares about this currency! No-one should even think about Kolin actively undermining Quark. How much time he has spent on Quark is mind-boggling...

This pretty much sums up, why Quark community is eating itself.

First rule of crypto is still "Strong community equals strong currency.".

I have no doubt that this problem will be solved soon (by solution I mean that Kolin should not be that defensive and half of the community should not be such critics) and Quark can finally be the "LiteCoin" (path-maker) of CPU coins. Oh golden glory days and quarks for all.

PS: Love you all. You guys make me hold my Quarks! Kiss

+1

BTC and LTC had to go through this. It's part of 'Growing Up'. Nearly all the alts have this going on at one time or another. The ones that don't are either not big/good enough to inspire opinion either way, or they have grown out of it. (probably only BTC and LTC fit that)