I am no longer an ONO Super Partner, some final thoughts

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For anyone who is following the ONO project, the Super Partner structure has been officially dissolved today, December 4th by NOME tech. Though I can't say this is much of a surprise, I wasn't sure when to expect it. I guess today was the day.

It was quite unceremonious and without a word from Ke. Again, not surprising as communication has been pretty dismal for many months. There was a text file posted in both Wechat and Telegram letting us know, here it is in full for those who haven't read it yet:

STATEMENT

ONO Super Partners should be: loyal, kind, self-directed, modest, have a long-term vision and firm belief, 51 people who serve all humanity.

The first ONO trial Super Partner operation was born on April 13, 2018. Its words and deeds should strictly abide by the "Common Program" and resign in October of the same year under the ONO white paper.

This year's Super Partners made outstanding contributions to ONO's early ecology:

  1. Established ONO's early ecological community, spread ONO's core values to reach more people, and help solve the obstacles users encountered in the process of using ONO. They have made a significant contribution to the ONO ecological prosperity.

  2. Provided traffic support for the early user adoption of ONO social network, achieving ONO dApp's outstanding performance of 3.258 million registered users in 100 days.

At the same time, during the trial period, some members have committed acts that do not align with the spirit of ONO:

  1. The official ONO's Facebook account is moderated by small number Super Partner members, and they have refused to give access to the account to ONO Founding Team.

The ONO social platform accounts are an essential distribution channel for ONO official information, and its management rights should belong to the ONO Founding Team. Due to early work coordination, some International Super Partners have received the right to manage the ONO Facebook account. During the work, the password has been changed, and repeated request for the access by the ONO Founding Team has been ignored. The false information delivered through the official channels has been contributing to false news distributed to the users worldwide. In this regard, the ONO Founding Team will create a new official Facebook account in the near future, Stay tuned. Beware of being misled by unofficial information.

  1. Some of Chinese Super Partners, in collaboration with an unknown exchange, organise a listing of ONOT. ONO officials warned that listing is not to be trusted and requested a delisting.

The exchange has stopped operating presently, but it is suspected of running, which is causing tremendous confusion in the community of users of ONOT. Even though the ONO Founding Team repeatedly issued a formal statement recommending that ONO users should not blindly purchase false ONOTs on the exchange, it is still impossible to prevent some retail investors from being persuaded by the exchange.

According to those mentioned above and the first six-month trial period of the first Super Partner trial announced by ONO, the ONO Founding Team is officially announcing that ONO's first trial Super Partner operation will be retiring.

Regarding the general election and ONO DAC operating rules, the ONO Founding Team will be amending the constitution, so stay tuned.

NOME GROUP

December 4, 2018


I won't go into detail about the Facebook or exchange issues as I had no part in either of those. I will instead leave you with a few thoughts about my personal experience.


When I was accepted as a Super Partner I had read the white paper a few times and I had a pretty clear vision about what I thought a Super Partner could accomplish. One of the most exciting aspects of ONO for me was the referendum and user influence.

The second was having a decentralized group monitoring and folding abusive content. I was thrilled that we would have the opportunity to start things off on the right foot by keeping plagiarism, scams and bots to a minimum. Theoretically this would lead to a more healthy ecosystem and a better overall experience for everyone. Unfortunately as you all know, getting things folded became very difficult and our desired tools were never delivered. I would be lying if I said I am not disappointed that I never had a chance to fold some of these repeat offenders! We have a spreadsheet full of abusive users and bot accounts that has been collecting dust.

That being said, it is still entirely possible to turn things around and move in a more healthy direction. At this point we just have to wait and see what structure is implemented to replace the Super Partner system.

I'm also excited to see the day that ONO runs on chain and is truly a decentralized platform that gives power to users. Having been in this DAC and working with the other SPs has been a truly exciting experience and I am grateful for that despite the frustrations.

Personally I will continue posting on ONO as I think it's a great looking app that has promise but I hope for ONO's sake that they increase the level of communication and perhaps invest in a professional translator for media communications. I would like to see this succeed on an International level but as it stands I am finding much of the pertinent info in Chinese and translating. Most people won't be willing to do this.

I have much more to say but I am still processing things. I will perhaps write a more in depth post in the future but I will leave it here for now.

Here's to the end of an interesting experiment, and perhaps the beginning of another ;)

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Sometimes I think I live in a little steemit bubble, ono? I mean everytime I turn around there is another platform? I'm not sure how many I am meant to be on and I HOPE that steemit sticks around because I so loved it once I found it. It's truly been like the 'good ole' early blogger days of the 2000's when it was a simple time of writing, making and sharing and then the added earnings! |But, now I am starting to feel the 'anxious' feeling that online life began to give me that almost pushed me to unplug BEFORE I found steemit.

I wish I could start a platform that had that 'old school' feel of early blogger days with the crypto. @naturofbeing and I have talked about this, but alas we have both made big moves so that was it, and now it is in limbo.
Maybe in the new year the time would be ripe for a new platform with crypto down and all, you'd find the people who REALLY wanted it for itself and not just a fast buck...You seem cryptosmart, maybe you could help us to corral vague art ideas into a platform that could have the feeling of the old school, I know there is a large swath of people in a more mature age group crying out for something more tangible than FB.

I know what you mean, even though the prices are so depressed the crypto platforms are booming and popping up all over the place and it's a bit nuts. I've always been of the mind that it's smart to spread my eggs in many baskets and meet all the communities but keeping up is basically impossible!

I'm curious to hear more about what kind of ideas you've been having. When I think old school blogging I think blogger/blogspot (? I think it was called?) and I guess livejournal? There are quite a few crypto art things popping up and I am trying to try them all and review them to see what ones I feel are a good fit but I have barely put a dent in my list so far!

What would you want to see if you could make whatever you want?

I had livejournal back in the day, and yeah, steemit now feels like lj then!

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I wrote a poem after reading this: https://busy.org/@rubenalexander/poem-plush-and-pruned

Julia, I saw you do amazing work for ONO. There is no doubt you are going to take your music and visual art to new heights.

Thanks Ruben I saw it in my notifications, you are a master of taking inspiration in the least expected places!

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Sorry to hear about the closing of SP program. Couldn't they just got rid of underperforming or misbehaving SPs and replaced them with better ones?

Hope that ONO will become decentralized sooner rather than later. Communication can make or break any initiative. I have a feeling they shouldn't have started in a Chinese market first but gone globally right away. But maybe local regulations and censorship requires it so I don't know.

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I think they decided that overall it might not be the most efficient way to do things, but IMO we were just never given the proper tools to even find out! Also the cultural/language and time differences between east and west definitely added another element of difficulty. You may be right about the second part but I am not sure why they didn't release here sooner. Many people were frustrated being beta testers so perhaps it was best that they waited?

Also never trust a poker player...

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Oh Julia I just got to know about this. I am not active there these days and haven't log in for quite some time. It was a good dapp, good idea, good system but horrible internal communications and perhaps many more issues I am not aware of :(

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