Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
What should we do with egregious examples of squatted channels? I'm going to call this individual out since it's clearly squatting — @0xg — is sitting on a bunch of city channels and not actively building communities: /denver /la /losangeles /nyc /newyorkcity /newyork /sanfrancisco (Also the multiple variations of city names with no activity is clear squatting and when there are active communities in /los-angeles /sf /new-york.) A few other thoughts: 1. We have a no squatting policy for fnames and we allow ENS for a name that isn't governed by that policy. 2. We never advertised channels as something you buy and own forever. Has been centralized and experimental since we allowed anyone to create a channel last December. 3. I'm sympathetic to someone who is good faith trying to build a community, but that's not squatting. 4. Squatting is squishy, know it when you see, not deterministic. 5. Ultimately, squatters are massive negative externality on the network. It's parasitic, anti-social behavior.
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Channel Guy
@0xg
I purchased them fair and square, in accordance with the set terms and conditions and with good purpose ; not for you to come up with some derogatory word for your customers who are your largest participants. When I purchased these channels it was at a point in the growth of Farcaster where people were just casting into the stratosphere and there was no way to unify and conversate for collective interests. What sort of “founder” takes to their platform like this? You don’t know me . I don’t know you. I was and remain and early supporter. You can just message me instead of acting like a piece of shit and buy them or we can make friends and maybe do something nice. I have resisted tons of offers on them from people that want to privatize them in the interest of keeping them open forums for people to link. How about a thank you.
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Channel Guy
@0xg
PS I would love my ETH back and be on my way it’s about $2,900 total at this point I spent on all them . You are straight childish posting like this. Embarrassing.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
1. You paid in warps, not ETH 2. They are a yearly fee.
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Channel Guy
@0xg
You required me to swap USDC/ETH to Warps to purchase them. Yes I am happy with the yearly fee and plan on renewing all of them.
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