The foundation currently is being used as an official voice of the Steem community - it’s not.
It’s being thrown into every conversation by one board member with the attempt to get funding to the foundation. There is no need for this.
The foundation can apply for funding from the SPS, and then it would actually be legitimized by stakeholders supporting it. This actually is beneficial as it prevents any abuse within the foundation (which is very important).
Currently the Foundation is being described as an “empty vessel” but also being used in a misleading way to represent something it is not. It’s being leveraged to get a seat at a table it has no reason to be at. Please stop letting it be used in this abusive manner.
There is no reason for this, please stop.
The name sounds official, it’s misleading. The current board has not been elected and has no stakeholder or user based legitimate support. Therefore it can only speak for the board members currently. They are simply individual Steem community members and should act as such. Not speak in an official manner or produce a “Steem roadmap” behind an official sounding name.. therefore confusing stake holders (aka the KR community), exchanges as well as the whole community.
This is not beneficial, it’s actually harmful. Please stop.
I've seen a lot of elections over my 40+ years of community service organization work. Any time an election took place in which the duly called for Nominees didn't exceed the number of spots available for election ... the nominees were declared elected by acclamation. Did someone change the rules when I wasn't looking?
This is DPOS, if you don’t have the support of stakeholders and community members, you can’t represent them.
Read my comment again and please stop presenting yourselves as authoritative figures. It’s hurting the efforts.
Please just stop.
Because the foundation is little known, also its origins and the account name doesn’t help either, I suggest every foundation post has a footer explaining it is a legal entity and was initiated by Steemit Inc, but operates fully independently from it.
A recent, updated post about its history and with links to historic events, would be valuable and could be linked in the footer section of each future post as well.
Morning.
You made a statement about the tags. I answered your question explaining why the tags were the way they were.
As to the rest of your reply... Thank You for letting us know how you feel. Everyone's voice needs to be heard.
Happy Saturday to you!