Crowdfunding critical infrastructure

Thu Jun 27 17:53:51 UTC 2019

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 10:31 AM Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:
>
> Jeff Shultz <jeffshultz at sctcweb.com>:
> > It will be interesting to see, should this get off the ground to any
> > significant amount, if it turns into a bit of a popularity contest -
> > where a few get the lions share of the donations and the rest a
> > pittance.
>
> I'm aware of that possible failure mode.  It's why I designed in a
> three-way fanout.  The Loadsharer pledge strongly encourages its
> takers to to find and sponsore *three* LBIPs.
>
> > It might be a good idea to provide the list in a random (and
> > frequently re-randomized) fashion to avoid the same names always being
> > at the top of it. I see that Matt Harris had the same thought.
>
> There is no one list, by design.  That would be a single point of failure.
>
> Each adviser keeps his or her own list.  Loadsharers choose which
> advisers to pay attention to.
>
> Didn't anyone actually read the webpage?

I did, but I definitely missed the part about advisors maintaining
their own lists. I believed they were all going to be contributing to
a master LBIPs list. -  "and can choose which Advisers to follow (or
to follow none!)" did not make that explicitly clear.

My mistake was thatI didn't go to the Advisors' pages. I thought
they'd just be bios or somesuch, but the first lists are there as
well.

As is, one thing that grates a bit personally is that the two advisor
pages do not share a common structure - If I'm doing a comparison,
even unconsciously, I'm going to want to be looking at like objects.
Instead, I have your page, which matches the rest of the formatting of
the Loadsharer's website, and then I go to Dave Täht's page which is a
Patreon blog post, with a very different appearance.

I suggest that you provide Advisors with Loadsharer pages like your
own, to increase the commonality between list appearances.

My background is military - some uniformity counts in my worldview.
Maybe the lack of it will assist in splitting the loadsharers between
Advisors, which could be considered a feature.

FWIW.

-- 
Jeff Shultz

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