I appreciate the reply, but I don't agree with your analysis or conclusion at all.
Ernesto, the main problem is that you're skewing past events and data to fit a false narrative as a justification for your poor performance and a change in strategy.
Let me explain.
The results of this report presented to the network as success criteria, is quite deceptive as your fixation and primary focus on fake follower growth with regard to the Dash Twitter account is invalid because that was not what caused the suspension of the account. Therefore, your misunderstanding of the symptom and your solution is invalid. You have presented a biased and distorted report that is inaccurate, unfair, and misleading.
This is also known as Information bias. Information bias (also called observation bias or measurement bias) happens when key information is either measured, collected, or interpreted inaccurately.
Confounding bias is a distortion (inaccuracy) in the estimated measure of association that occurs when the primary exposure of interest is mixed up and distorted with some other factor (risk) that is associated with the outcome.
Your claim that the Twitter account suspension was directly correlated with fake follower account growth as the main cause is inaccurate. With that misunderstanding on that mistaken assumption you have made an argument as a justification for taking certain action to remedy this. However, this is actually a distortion of the true relationship (events) that caused the suspension of the account in the first place.
This is where I take issue with what you have presented to the network.
To be clear, the Twitter account was suspended in 2021, and was reactivated in May 2021, 1 year before you began to manage social media. During that 1-year period before you took over there wasn't any further account suspensions or drop in followers.
The Twitter account suspension was previously confirmed by DCG to not be the result of its own actions or the content it posted, but rather as a direct result of third-party accounts with fake followers that were retweeting content from the main Dash Twitter account, which was flagged by Twitter as suspicious activity and led to the simultaneous banning of a number of other Dash-related Twitter accounts.
Ironically, this also included Dash Help, and
your personal Twitter profile, and a few others. Since you were also directly impacted by this, it wasn't an isolated problem, and you ought to be fully informed of the details as you were directly affected by these actions. As you stated on Reddit. The bot/s were retweeting content from several accounts.
The suspension of these accounts was not due to fake follower account growth, it was due to a volitation of Twitter's terms of service from the use of retweeting bots, that were retweeting from accounts with non-human activity. If it wasn't fake follower growth alone that served as the main culprit otherwise these other Twitter accounts including yours would have been unaffected. I'm confident you are fully aware of this already.
As a result, contrary to what you claimed, Twitter did not suspend the main Dash Twitter account or your personal account for an increase in non-human follower account growth. Continued attempts to use this as justification for altering your content strategy and how you gauge growth are a total fabrication.
The account suspension had absolutely nothing to do with the caliber or frequency of the content posted on the main account, nor was it connected to the account's increase in followers. This evidently also applies to your own personal account.
To summarize, the account suspension was not the result of any mistakes made in how the main Dash account was managed in the past. Therefore, there is no excuse for failing to use follower growth as the primary performance success metric or for pretending to use a different strategy that is not based on follower growth but instead is based on a misinterpretation of the past. Regardless of whether this was done on purpose or not, saying otherwise after the fact is misleading.
Objectively, the surge in followers that occurred in 2021 perfectly coincides with a price increase of Dash. It is utterly false to assert that the increase in followers was entirely caused by bots. On the chart I previously posted that compares other cryptocurrency projects, it is also clear that they all experienced follower account growth during the year 2021, with no subsequent downtrend. To make matters worse, some of the projects I mentioned are only a few years old and have a much higher follower count than Dash did at the time of its growth.
Therefore, this entire fake follower growth narrative surrounding the account suspension as a justification for subpar performance during your year of management by distorting the truth about what actually led to the account suspension in the first place to fit your narrative is quite shameful.
To be clear, I am not denying the existence of bots and non-human followers on the Twitter platform; on the contrary, this is a well-known issue that Elon Musk has stated he wishes to address. However, Dash is not the only account experiencing this issue. It is a systemic problem affecting the vast majority of accounts on the platform.
Almost exactly like the findings of your report, there is too much hot air and not enough substance. I'm only calling out your BS because you published this report while fully aware that it contains numerous errors that are being used as a justification to hide your subpar performance from the network. This is coming from a paid network representative, and I won't take it.
As a result, I will now challenge all of your network-published findings because it is obvious that you are willing to retract the truth in order to make results appear better than they are.
You also mention an improvement in the level of quality of the content posted on the Twitter account, but I can see from the community Discord server that there have been a lot of complaints over the past year about content that was posted while you were in charge, and that your audience had flagged as being unsuitable for our audience.
For instance:
Since these actions were carried out under your supervision, only you and no one else can be held accountable for them. It also demonstrates why you are not qualified to oversee Dash's social media strategy or business development because you obviously lack the knowledge and common sense to realize that the content was inappropriate when it was startlingly obvious to everyone else.
I see that these key insights in your report results and comments in this forum were also obfuscated, making it impossible for others to know about them to establish an informed opinion about the findings. However, those who follow the account, like myself, are fully aware of this. I concur with everyone on Discord who raised the flags to express their displeasure.
This is deceptive behavior, and full of partial truths.
I would advise sticking with business development, but even that has seemed to suffer significantly over the past year or so. For instance, you were caught trying to pass off an old integration as a new one just last week and were caught red-handed.
It's clear that you have a habit of withholding crucial information for your own gain to warp and overstate your performance to the network, which is detrimental to the community and network you're supposed to be serving. It is obvious that this is not an isolated incident. Since the network has also participated in this journey as bystanders, it is easy to see and openly acknowledge a consistent pattern of events. In what you present as truth, you are dishonest in your failure to communicate by distorting the facts and are guilty of information and confounding bias. You simply cannot be trusted in your current role as a result. You are unethical and unprofessional in how you conduct and report your work to the network to review. Since you are unable to tell the truth, you should not be praised but rather exposed so that others can draw their own educated and informed conclusions about what really happened.
My motivation for taking the time to write this is to do what is best for Dash in the long run. I have a vested interest in the success of the Dash project. Your misguided 5-year multi-year failure to focus efforts on Venezuela has harmed the project, we have missed opportunities and fell behind as a project due to misdirection with a failure to objectively adapt and revise our strategy where needed. I want Dash to achieve real growth, which necessitates the hiring of a true expert capable of measuring performance and delivering real results. I don't see any improvement in your performance or results with each passing year.
Rather than wasting time bandaging the problem in order to conceal the main problem, I'd focus on building a long-term solution that is suitable for purpose to address the underlying issue highlighted.
There is obviously a lack of general knowledge and common sense, as well as a comprehension of what the project actually represents and needs. Everything is clarified by earlier quotes, which include people like George Soros and others who are completely inappropriate for this project.
In the end, the solution is that we require good leadership in order to end the loop of subpar hiring choices and measure performance accurately.
This is what I would do in this situation:
Rather than taking a chance and recruiting a new person as a direct replacement in the desperate hope that they will perform better on social media / growth / business development. I would welcome the benefits that our DAO's performance-based incentives provide. DCG might, for instance, repurpose the funds it was using to pay for a managed social media solution and establish a DMH Trello bounty specifying goals with distinct deliverables as it ought to be. I'm sure there are people in our community that are capable, have a clear knowledge of the project, and would prefer to be paid in "Dash" rather than fiat. These resources are at our disposal, so we ought to use them in the manner in which they were designed.