Hmm, regarding clikes, and considering a similar situation… I always ignore the targeted ads at the top of search results; the habit is so ingrained, I literally don’t see them most of the time.
If I felt that some forum comments were being sneaked up to the top by payment, I would tend to react the same way, or abandon the forum altogether if such ignoring was too hard to do.
Clike usage will be visible, as I understand it. And once you see something disagreeable, you can block further stuff from that source. It costs the user of Clike. Also, organic web of trust likes and dislikes have more weight than Clikes and the Clikes impact decays with time.
My guess is that this sort of model will really change the way those wanting to influence groups from outside will be forced to behave. I think we’ll see and increase of respect and a more genuine effort to service those reached, because those who do it well will be rewarded best, those who don’t do it well will be rewarded less, and those that do other will be moved way out of the money fast, and have to reform and show penitence to be allowed to approach again.
If it doesn’t evolve this way, Users will simply invoke their ability to exclude any affect to rank or visibility that Clike would otherwise have, relying on the organic web of social trust that will be stronger in the Decorum protocol natively.
Efforts by big money to co-opt the system will thus just shut the big money out.
I can think of a few probably-programable functions that would let Clikes still be of value even if big money were abusing it. Such as: having a setting that causes all Clikes to be ignored unless they are posted under content which has subsequently been given organic likes by those within ones trust boundries, and only according to the level of trust those people share with the User.
Decorum, SafeX and the SAFE Network (and other apps certainly) together are a Trojan horse carrying agents of social sanity rather than Greeks.
So let me get this straight: you have a crowdsale for a app that requires a platform that is not out, won’t be out for an unknown amount of time that could potentially end up being forever, won’t have the inevitable kincks ironed out for an even longer amount of time, and said platform has not even proven in the wild to be able to provide the features it has promised?
What can you say, the guys an optimist! I don’t blame him really.
IMO you are uncovering the potential of it all and a lot of really smart people starting to see the “writing the wall.” Last time I checked Decurum is over $60,000 in the crowd sale in less than 48 hours. This is with the reality you described. Imagine what we will be doing in the world when the network is fully functional, lots of SAFE wealthy early adopters, and people are working on their passions and paying the bills.
Just like startup or .com investments,
we hope for the best…
That sounds like a summary of the Risk Disclosure document which you can find on the crowdsale webpage. So, yes, that’s right. Nowhere does it state that it’s a low risk investment, on the contrary. But with great risk come potential great rewards.
Also, have you seen what SEC did after it’s 50K USD crowdsale?
The crowdsale started only 22 hours ago. 
Very excited for Decorum~ make SAFE ecosystem greater!
I wasn’t talking about disagreeable, but organic, comments, but about what is paid advertising, no matter how agreeably presented. If it has a hint of being paid for, I filter it, and I’m probably not alone in that.
You’ll have that option for sure. It’s open software at an open platform, there’s no sense in trying to force feed people features like this. But it may turn out to be useful though, when your web of trust doesn’t extent into a particular community or area and thus have little else to go on.
Just a quick reminder to please not sidetrack this thread into political debate. Thanks.
A question regarding the transfer of Maid.
I transfered MAID from poloniex to a new omniwallet and when I now try to send it further to the MAID adress listed on the crowdsale page, I can’t because I don’t have enough bitcoin for the transaction?!
Do I really have to buy more bitcoin and transfer it to my omniwallet that I solely created for this reason? That would make the whole process really expensive with all the fees for exchanges and transaction costs…
Thanks
Yeah, there is a small fee from both bitcoin and omni… See this thread for some more discussion about it. Same thread more details from @neo
Just tried it and they are there for me. Make sure the box is ticked and scripts are enabled
thanks Neo! last nihjt I was on the Mac… might be my Ghostery or script blocker then… many thanks
You can also make an omni wallet with those two addresses as watch addresses. I notice it doesn’t always come up for me on the crowd funding page.
I’ve just sent 0.5 BTC direct from my Bitcoin Core client (To the BTC address) That’s not going to be a problem is it? Or should I have used Omniwallet? Thanks.
You’ll just need to import the private key for the address you sent it from into Omni at some point in order to be able to see and transfer PDC once it is disbursed after the crowdsale.
Thanks Fergish. 
Also, does that mean if I want to check my PDC balance, all I have to do is put my BTC address into Omniwallet and it will show up? (similar to the way it shows my MAID’s?)
How long will the crowd sale be?? I’m very interested but need to get some money into btc which takes a bit.
