Fixing App Mining Rewards
Stealthy’s App Review Resolution
The negative score currently assigned to Stealthy for January is averaged into future scores, affecting Stealthy’s ability to compete fairly, reclaim higher rankings, and fund our development. While there are many issues with these App Mining Rewards, at a minimum,we believe Stealthy should be re-reviewed by the Product Hunt and TryMyUI reviewers. These re-reviews should, address the problems we’ve outlined: transparency, technical failures from Blockstack, poor instructions, and tester guidance.
Long Term
To date App Mining Rewards have heavily awarded two Apps that appeared 2 months ago (Zinc, SpringRole) that only use Blockstack Authentication. These Apps do not use the multitude of other Blockstack features, failing to push the platform further. How does this get Blockstack to the 1M users milestone or improve Blockstack’s storage, cryptography, and mobile platform features?
Blockstack’s own core engineers agree that Blockstack Auth PLUS Gaia storage should be required. Additionally, Blockstack, itself, defines a Blockstack app as:
II. Users own their identities
III. Users have free choice of clients”
Instead it’s left in the hands of illegitimate Democracy Earth users, gameable Product Hunt votes, and uninformed TryMyUI testers. Why doesn’t the actual Blockstack community get consideration in the scoring, for instance with their logins or more detailed feedback:
