RE: TravelFeed 3.0, Independence And Cross-Posting
The post is mostly understandable given the situation. However i just have one thing to add. The 10% beneficiary aspect. The argument that one is charging for a multi posting- facility and storage of content is not tenable. Serious bloggers always keep back up of their work offline and may also have their own wordpress blogs as well. As far as multi-posting is concerned it just an extra 2 minutes to copy and paste ones own article from one place to another.
If users are giving a portion of their earnings, then in some way they are "funding" your operations. Travelfeed should see them as small investors. And when the time comes for a Travelfeed Token. The posters who have given 10% of their earnings should be compensated with tokens equivalent to the amount given by the user over a period of time.
Please do consider this suggestion since i feel it will lead to less heartburn among users over time. The amounts may look tiny when seen in USD terms. Please understand you have users from all over the world. A mere 1 USD in India becomes 75 Bucks ! That is enough money to sustain a low income family of two with good nutritious food for a day !
The best thing an organization can do is to turn its users into stakeholders :)
Namaste!
Hi @sajannair, I'm also from an emerging country, so I understand your concerns perfectly. However, I must address some points for reflection.
I do agree that it takes a few minutes to cross-post manually, but I try to consider the benefits of using TravelFeed.
As for the tokens, we can't discuss distribution yet because we are still working on the token functionalities. What I can say is that we won't create a token out of thin air that will quickly lose value, there's much more to it.
We may reconsider the 10% beneficiary, but if you analyse how much we give in rewards with our curation program, that 10% becomes nothing compared to the efforts we put on our users.