Sorry, I know I'm a long-winded poster. I'll try to keep it brief. And I tried to private message you, but I can't.. But just as well, I feel this is a great dialogue to have out in public.
I numbered your paragraphs.
1. Understood; but Pearl, my whole point to you is that it could have happened even if they showed their faces. If their intent was to scam its holders, I fail to see how knowing who they are would change anything. You said they figured out who it was...okay, now what? The money is still gone. And nothing is going to change that. There is no legal recourse, because technically, the dev wallet belongs to them. They are entitled to sell the tokens. Unethical as hell? 100%. But not illegal.
Under these circumstances, "seeing" the devs should mean as much to you as seeing a coli avatar.
2. That's not a fair characterization of the coli token community--most of whom actually don't come from thecoli.com. As I mentioned in this thread numerous times, it started here, but its available on pancakeswap for anyone in the world to buy. And that's what happened. People all over have bought. Some of them incredibly smart and know exactly what they're doing.
No one brought up the dev wallet because none of them have been a recent victim of a rugpull. They don't carry fresh paranoia like you do. Warranted, to be sure. Your concern is warranted. But they vetted our project, and decided it was good to go. Just because they don't question it, doesn't mean they're uninformed.
You question the dev wallet because that's the method underwhich you were scammed.
Even still, if we can get past the identity part, I'm ready and willing to turn the dev wallet into a burn wallet.
5. It's not unreasonable Pearl, but again, the characterization has to be right. I'm not beholden to millions of people's dollars. I'm not responsible for generating anything. I'm a buyer and seller like you. And like any holder, I wish for the price to go up. I know its hard to seperate being a "creator" from a holder, and I agree with your sentiment that as of right now, I'm the project moreso than the coin itself.
@ShadowBroker made that same assessment when she spoke to me. People look to me instead of the token. I don't know if its female intuition, but both of you made that same point, and I accept that. for now, the product is
me.
She wound up believing in me though, for which I'm grateful. I don't know why I'm spending all this time talking to you, maybe because I recognize its people like you that could make a project better.. For whatever you may believe, I think we both could agree that If I was some scammer trying to lure people in, there are much easier people to convince than you.
And I don't care about you potentially putting in 1k. I would actually, humbly, ask you not to. Even if you were down to do it. Especially with what you just went through. If you were deadset on buying COLI, i'd say put $5 or $10 in max.
That's all most people have ever put in. No one is re-mortgaging their house to buy COLI, Pearl. It's just loose change being tossed in the well, and people going 'lets see what happens'.
Again, sorry for the long messages. I usually have these convos over voice chat.
Your questions are valid, but just as well, I feel my answers are valid. If you wind up joining the coli token telegram, PM
@Legend, I've got something I think you'll be interested in.