dStors? dCommerce? dWhat?

Merry Christmas to everyone on here who celebrates.

Unfortunately, I awoke this morning to some controversy.

Most of you are aware of what took place the past couple days with Hive account@dstors. A post that Hive account@whatsup wrote caused a great deal of controversy. It was met with some aggressive comments; reactions that really did not mirror the questions posed. Most troubling was the fact some of the responses came from the dStors account itself.

Hive account@kaliju replied in the comment section of one of the post (I cannot recall which one) that he was not the one posting for the account and the matter was taken care of. He was back in control of the Hive account@dstors Steem account and the matter was dealt with.

We come to find out what dealing with look like. We now get this post announcing the split of dStors with dCommerce now emerging.

https://busy.org/@dcommerce/dstors-project-has-a-brand-new-name-dcommerce

This is not uncommon since project teams often have difference of opinion and there typically some egos involved. Projects splitting, while not the best thing in the world, can often be good in the long run. Unfortunately, something smells fishy at this time.

So what is the deal? As with most splits, stuff is divided. What is really remaining with dStors?

The past two days saw a couple posts in the Hive account@dstors account. The first was a survey to try and gather information about people's buying and selling habits. The second was one wishing everyone a Merry Christmas along with a promise to update in a few days.

Now, I can understand it is business as usual mindset in times like this. Things still must be done. Also, I get having to take time to figure some things out and evaluate where they stand. However, now is not the time to go silent. We saw that behavior with Steemit and it was not well received.

Thus far, all responses from Hive account@kaliju are in comments. There is nothing about any of this from the Hive account@dstors account. Here is a prime example where reputation is not just a number next to one's username.

In reading the post by Hive account@dcommerce, it seems like they did all the work and now, essentially, dStors is dCommerce. While the dStors name is still in effect, all the assets (ideas) went with dCommerce. Is that true?

We see this from Hive account@kaliju, again in the comment section.

No it does not sound like a rebranding. It appears the person who was doing the posting was the entire project and took it. At least that is how their post positions it.

dCommerce is a different project separate from dStors. They are asking for their own delegation and people will have to do their own research into it. It is up to each person to decide to delegate or not. At this point, they have no responsibility to anyone.

dStors, on the other hand, already took in a ton of delegation. It is your responsibility to communicate with the people who delegated. They need information to make a somewhat informed decision. Either way, it is good business practice. As I said, reputation is a lot more than just a number.

Ergo, the ones with no responsibility put up a post explaining the situation while the ones with it, go silent. Does anyone else see the disconnect in this?

Having two projects is never a bad thing. However, in this situation it looks like the ones who can pull it off moved on and dStors is left with a name. At least that is how it is being presented, granted by one group only.

In other words, it looks like there is only one project and it just went from dSotrs to dCommerce. That is how I read it anyway.

As we know there are a ton of great ideas in this industry. Hell, since I am one who believes in tokenizing everything, I have about 10 a day. The problem is it requires a lot more than a great idea to actually change anything. We know many, if not most, projects on Steem (and everywhere else) will fail. They do so for a variety of reasons and, in the end, it does not matter. The ones that survive are what makes the difference while the failures are learning opportunities.

So what is dStors?

At this moment, silent.

I guess they are being in the spirit of things.

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