hummmm… interesting take.
Is your position that ARB Staking is bribing, as well? because my program is the exact same mechanism in practice, but funded with my own earnings, instead of the DAOs revenue.
As I’ve argued in the previous dispute comment, I think this program of mine is eligible for BP, as it is an experiment whose learnings will benefit the DAO. In fact, it can be argued that it already has impacted and benefited the DAO by the multiple discussions it generated since I launched it.
Also, and this is in fact the main issue as you say, I’m pretty sure you haven’t been deciding, for all these past months of DIP 1.5, to award BP to any other delegate, based on what they say they will spend that money on… right?
So it doesn’t really make sense that you’re deciding not to reward this experiment with BP because you don’t feel comfortable that that money will go to fund this experiment. It is not your decision to make really. It’s my money to spend as I see fit.
I would kindly ask you to reconsider this clearly untenable position.