Finding a way forward for SteemSilverGold

Deep breath. Ok. This has been a tough week. I know that emotions are running a bit high and I’m not immune to that either. If I am being totally honest I’ve felt sick about this all week and I very nearly just walked away from all of this. But this is one of those times I know I need to push emotions to the side, put on the big boy pants, have those hard conversations and make the tough decisions. So that’s what I’ve tried to do. With that said I want to just focus on what we can do going forward and try to stay positive.

As I wrote in my other post, SilverGoldBotty and SteemSilverGold are not the same thing. If they have different ownership models and different objectives then that is fine, there is no reason that they can’t co-exist and there doesn’t need to be any conflict. There has been some clarification of the situation after the recent meeting and that is a good and healthy thing. What that meeting showed me is that the community of SteemSilverGold is actually quite strong and it is passionate – This is all VERY good!

So how do we go forward? There are some members of SteemSilverGold who are unhappy with SilverGoldBotty and they will likely opt-out of supporting it. There is no reason why those members should not be able to create and support a new bot with whatever governance model they want. It is actually probably a healthy thing for SteemSilverGold members to have a choice between supporting 2 bots. Members can decide for themselves whether to support one or both, or neither. The way this platform works it is unlikely that there will be any significant negative impact on their SilverGoldBotty vote value because if a few people drop membership of SilverGoldBotty then remaining members will just get a larger share of the voting power. It will even itself out so those people who are concerned about their ROI need not be worried.

I previously offered my time and expertise to help the members of the SteemSilverGold to set up a new community owned and run bot. This offer still stands and I am not asking for any remuneration or compensation as I am happy to donate to something I believe in. While I am not the most active member I do believe in SteemSilverGold and what it stands for. My only condition on my work is that there is proper governance put into place for any new bot and that it is effectively communication so that misunderstandings and conflict like what has occurred this week can be avoided in future. Hit me up on Discord if you want to talk to me about this.

Finally, I would like to apologise if I have upset or offended anyone with my comments and actions this week. Even though I often suppress it, I am actually a very passionate individual with a very strong moral imperative. It does cause me a lot of sleepless nights but it is who I am as an individual. I never meant to upset or offend others so please accept my apology if you feel I have been out of line.

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