I have just seen the latest update taking even more steps against fraudsters. It seems like more development resources are being thrown at making complex systems that are getting increasingly hard to understand.

My views are now only counted if I say the magic word three times while dancing in circles on one foot five days after a new moon but not on Fridays!

About a year ago, the defining factor of the BBS network seemed to me the NFT aspect of the network. The other defining feature of being able to earn from your content was also a unique feature.

Instead of working on expanding these unique features the focus is on what exactly? A very late replica of other social networks? Is it just a revival of an obsolete bulletin board system that reached its peak last century except now it's on the blockchain?

Being able to trade NFTs was something that got me excited about logging on to the BBS network. I thought it was fun to be able to trade and looked into curating a collection of NFT posts. Instead of expanding on creating a unique gamified social network and working on the issues  related to NFT trading, it has become pointless activity. It would have been great for investors to easily find and buy gems and be able to keep them and that could earn them some passive income. 

This could have included things like sorting the quality issues in a way that didn't punish good content creators, improving the listing functions so that quality was highlighted and rubbish sunk to the bottom, allowing NFT owners to hold on to their NFTs and mechanisms for entrepreneurs to easily invest their own funds and sell the ad space on their NFTs could have brought funds and users into the platform.

It's hard to see any competitive edge for BBS Network now. There doesn't seem to be a clear direction except to wipe out fraud at all costs and lose good players and all the fun in the process.