I think below the SpreadCoin logo, after a couple of links, we should include several keypoints as to what makes SpreadCoin special. For example:

Quote from: njs811 on March 15, 2015, 08:03:04 pm

What mistakes are you seeing?

Would take too long to explain in detail, my background and experience gives me a view that's radically different from most. With all due respect to georgem's initiative in setting up a poll, all such informal exercises conducted on bulletin boards are simply ill-founded and produce results which are indistinguishable from a purely random choice. The people being polled are an unrepresentative sample of the user population and the poll results will be inevitably skewed by that factor. Finding acceptable and properly meaningful labels for technological features is not a trivial matter and is far too important to usability to be abandoned to a skewed plebiscite.

Now we've got a bunch of people who think the feature is going to be called "spreadnodes" which is a bit of a disaster for usability because it gives the user no help whatsoever in creating a shallow but functionally adequate model of the underpinning tech.

There was never a question in the first place: there is no branding programme in process, so there are no branding issues to consider, it is a usability issue plain and simple and so the answer is “service node”. Anyone who wants to launch an informed challenge to the analysis is perfectly free to do so and I would welcome the chance to refine our notions.

I think I'd challenge the consensus with: “Great, you’ve collectively chosen ‘spreadnode’. Now your task is to write the user documentation for this feature in such a way that new users can trivially comprehend the notion. It’s a shame that you didn't choose ‘servicenode’, that would have made the documentation task so much easier.”

Cheers

Graham

In the documentation, we could just firsthandedly mention that "spreadnodes" are just code-name for "servicenodes" 

Quote from: gjhiggins on March 15, 2015, 02:11:06 pm

Quote from: njs811 on March 15, 2015, 03:40:35 am

Quote from: Gladimor on March 15, 2015, 12:44:17 am

In addition, I could try to arrange for a PR storm once MNs are ready to be pushed to the main network.

a PR storm would shoot the price up drastically. I look forward to this day.

The trouble is, there's no evidence to suggest this will be the case. A PR storm will need to promote qualities of the coin - where are you going to start: “no pools”? Can't use that. “Instantx”? Can't use that either, DASH intends to trademark the term. “Masternodes”? ditto. No, the appropriate time for a PR release is when there are solid, currently-exclusive tech advances for people to talk about and riff off; PR material is for use by others and they need the story explaining to them in words of not more than two syllables.

I'm ambivalent about continuing my engagement with Spreadcoin, I'm seeing the same mistakes being made and I'm beginning to wonder whether it's worth the effort.

Cheers

Graham

I have been advocating many times that we should not use terms like masternodes, darksend and instantx.
Instead of masternodes we can use the word servernode or servicenode. This makes much more sense.
Also, if we make it sound as generic as possible then nobody can possibly trademark it. And that's a good thing.

I mean I understand the wish some people have to trademark the name of a coin for identity reasons,
but to start naming and trademarking certain algorithms and features completely baffles me
and is one of the reasons I don't want to have anything to do anymore with darkcoin.

But think about it: Servernodes or Servicenodes.

I see a future where our servicenodes will be built in a certain way that will allow an owner to create and run any plugin he wishes on it.

Stay tuned for freedom

Agreed. Maybe we could also consider "SpreadNodes" 

Another remark I would like to make is that we should self-moderate the new ANN to prevent bashers and shills from giving SPR a bad appearance. I have seen so much of those people in the original ANN, I am beginning to wonder maybe that is one of the reasons for Mr. Spread's disappearance.

It would perhaps be beneficial to makeup a list of things which need to be accomplished as far as marketing is concerned.

As soon as the new ANN is in place, I will be very active on the twitter account.

People were suggesting name changes back in the original ANN- what are your opinions on that matter?

Dear SpreadCoin community,

Recently several of you have stepped forward to take the reins of development from the now-gone Mr.Spread.

Since I plan on creating a new announcement thread for SPR, I'll need to take down the names (usernames) of the people that have volunteered for this effort 

The names of the members of the new dev team as well as their role will be publicly visible in the OP, allowing remaining/future investors, enthusiasts, and supporters to see who the navigators of this ship are.

Please reply here if you are/want to be on the new development team, as well as your role. If you guys would like, I'd gladly take on the role of community manager.

Best,
Adam

Dont forget to follow the new SpreadCoin Twitter: www.twitter.com/spreadcointeam

Also, when is the date when I should create the new ANN for SpreadCoin?