RE: Open Letter to Ned and Dan: You Badly Need a Communications/Community/Content Expert and I Hereby Nominate @stellabelle or @donkeypong For That Job
@steamship, I am glad to see that there are people who stand up for what they believe. I am just learning how some things work in here. People should be allowed to voice ideas for improving the site, fixing the communication problems, and how people want to spend their votes, as is the case with @stellabelle and I'm sure she is not the only one. To hear that things are going to be changed, just when I am starting to get the hang of it is a little discouraging. I am also saddened to hear that @tuck-fheman is getting chased off. There are a few that gave me the courage to stay here, but I have yet to start my own blogging. If it's nothing but stress in here, this little minnow may seek a different pool to swim in. I hope that some good ideas are looked over, and that things are handled like adults. Steem could be a great thing, and not a potential of being a "has been".
On the contrary, you should be happy that developers are active and continuously working to make the platform better. Without any changes Steem will not be successful. There is still a lot to do until Steem can take over the world.
I agree with this, but the manor in which changes are rolled out is worthy of reflecting on, and many comments offered in this thread speak to that. Unless the community feels it is involved in such decisions, they will be quick to judge them as centralized and autocratic.
I guess I should have rephrased that. Any developing, which is done to make sites better is great. But from the perspective of someone just starting out on steem, reading all the comments about changes being made without warning and from sounds of it, not well liked, is where my discouragement is coming from.