No volunteer will want to work with an org that will boot them off when they need to use an app to make their lives easier to moderate because reddit wants to monetize. Quality will suffer as respectable moderators won't be sticking around.

If reddit was more strategic, they'd build a moderation tool that's just as good to replace Apollo. Then maybe this issue might have been less of a problem -- more importantly, they should have engaged with the moderators in the first place. But I think at the senior management level, they're too focused on monetizing their data which resulted in this knee jerk reaction.

Our CEO was also remote during that time too and here's him giving a webinar from a cabin :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXPDXbrPdxI&ab_channel=Beaco....

https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/beacon-series-c--60...

We've also got a bunch of positions open too for those that are interested in joining!

https://www.beacon.io/careers/

Spend time now to learn about accessibility features on different systems, iPhone, android, your PC. Look into how to navigate into them. Look up screen readers as you may use them to have them read content from the web for you. Be an advocate for accessibility features and their standardization as this is often forgotten with developers.

I've posted a link below to a video of my friend, if you'd like to reach out to him, PM me. It's a definitely challenging time. I've known him since before and after going blind so he may give some advice from his experience.

Also reach out to other blind communities now to hear perspectives from many other people if you can. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2108067789479904

I'm actually quite interested in the outcome of this, especially because of transaction fees for credit card payments are so high. For some places in Asia, Japan in particular has credit card transaction fees of in the 3.6% range and going up to 4.5% for international cards.

For businesses selling services in the $2500 range, just at 3.6% of this transaction becomes $90 in fees just for a single transaction. Which, I think, is quite high just for moving a digital asset around.

While the prospects of "trading" this asset might not be as interesting, the potential for far lower transaction fees for people running a business seems very attractive to me.

The questions come to mind are:

1. if you are providing a service to provide price feeds: - for the on the runs, then places like retuters should be able to provide that data - for off the runs, there is much less liquidity/information as mentioned here, for that a price is often paid to dealers (so no change there)

2. If you are creating an exchange then this can possibly reduce the spreads for less liquid instruments - The interesting problem you'll need to deal with is how everyone deals with settlement.

We're talking about the legitimacy of a single blog post vetoing 686 backers (according to the cached link on the kickstarter post) from what it looks like from the kickstarter post.

I don't think that this response was particularly measured:

-1) Does it only take a single blog post to have kickstarter ban a project?

1a) Can we be certain that the blog post did not take the passage out of context?

1b) Can they be sure that the seduction manual was intentionally promoting the alleged "sexual violence"?

1c) Was there any reasonable attempt to communicate with the author to address the paragraphs in issue?

-2) What number of the kickstarter community reacting negatively to this project?

2a) Was "Sexual violence" the only controversial topic?

2b) Was a specific (kickstarter) clause for violation cited?

2c) Was any law broken because of this project?

3)Can malicious intent be proven?

[1] If you actually look at the link to reddit comment link I don't even see conversation that could be taken as people taking this as "sexual violence" and there is even one comment from a female user (derina585) that recommends changing the language and offering advice.

This reaction to lynch mob the guy is unwarrented and is somehow legitimized by kickstarter's "apology." I think that we need to take a closer look at the information before jumping to conclusions here.

Also very curious about the startup process in japan.