Yes. the difference is that the incentives for voting, in this Double Dip model, are proportional to the voting power of each delegate, and the delegate with the most voting power enrolled in the program, receives the biggest share of First Dip rewards. Comparing to DIP 1.7, a delegate with 552,100 ARB like @TodayInDeFi would receive way less in this model than in DIP 1.7 ($65.34 USD vs $1,000 USD equivalent which is the Tier X minimum), and a delegate with 15,610,000 ARB like L2BEAT (@krst) would receive more in this model than in DIP 1.7 (1,847.43 USD vs $1,500 USD equivalent which is the Tier X maximum). You can check the comparable amounts for August here.
This was designed so that delegates with less voting power that would still qualify for voting incentives would look for opportunities to also contribute to the DAO, and get Second Dip rewards as well.
Right now, in DIP 1.7, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to me that delegates with just barely more than 500,000 ARB immediately get $1,000 USD a month just for voting. And by the way, I’m arguing and proposing this Double Dip model against myself here, because I think is just better for the DAO. Otherwise I could just vote (2 or 3 times a month) with the +700,000 ARB delegated to me and collect more than $1,000 USD a month.
I’m also thinking of adding another rule for delegates to be able to receive First Dip rewards, which is that they need to cast [100%] of their votes with a reason for every offchain and onchain vote.
Any delegate can monitor if the system is being gamed, just like we’ve been doing for the past few months, since the data is available to us all. For example, with the last DIP 1.7 results, delegates complained about the results, and even though disputes were outlawed, the results still changed based on those outlawed disputes. For those that followed the reaction to the latest August DIP 1.7 results in the telegram chat, they know that delegates are paying attention to how the other delegates are behaving and how they are being rewarded. In this Double Dip system, anybody would be able to propose a rule or parameter change at any time, via an offchain vote (but the change can’t be retroactively applied, which has been a problem in DIP).
I think these are all examples of value add contributions that any delegate could do, and submit them every month as their contributions to qualify for Second Dip rewards. These things could even be done by @SEEDGov to be honest.