Hi @SEEDGov,
No other compensation declaration
I gather you want to avoid someone being rewarded twice.
Correct I have no plans to submit this for any other compensation.
Timing of attribution of contribution (not impact)
I claim that this award should be allocated for April.
The DIP v1.6 “bible” is silent on any requirement to wait for an external “impact” (e.g. a Paulo post) before awarding Bonus Points for work actually done in a given month.
Exceptional contributions are awarded in the month they’re submitted.
- The manual specifies that
“At the end of each month, delegates who have submitted proposals of significant impact to the DAO … will have the opportunity to earn bonus points … which will be added to their final score for the month.”
- In which month are my comments evaluated?
Comments are evaluated in the same month in which they occurred, regardless of whether it is a proposal that then goes to a vote or if it is a thread in a different part of the forum (not a proposal).
My DAO Watch podcast episodes were published in April, so they meet the “submitted … at the end of”-April criterion.
By extension, any delegate-authored content (blogs, podcasts, deep-dives) should likewise be creditable in the month of publication.
DIP manual ties Bonus Points to the month of actual contribution, not to when someone else’s reply or up-stream post happen.
Regardless I do meet the criteria, there is evidence for impact occurring here within the month with several delegates expressing value with comments or likes.
Let’s hear from Paulo. @paulofonseca - can you weigh in on the impact the DAO Watch podcast had on you, the DAO, and its timing? Lets wait for this.
Attribution of contribution and causality of impact
Inconsistent logic
- How can one attribute bonus points to people putting in effort to SOS, but not causing results as SOS is put into hiatus, also it’s impact was not knowable or measurable within the same month contribution occurred
For the record I don’t agree that putting in work that doesn’t yield a positive result is worthless, I think its valuable all the same even to arrive at a choice the DAO doesn’t take is valuable work in of itself and we should incentivize the work to workout paths we deliberate and decide not to take. - ETHBucharest booth - by what metric are you assessing the value of people volunteering? on the effort of hours, or what metric is being used to measure the impact of that contribution?
Do we award effort or impact? there appears to be inconsistent treatment and not a coherent principle of incentive attribution occurring.
In my view we should incentivize both, to incentivize experimentation and trying something new and continue to motivate the contributors behaviour.
Astro Teller, former head of Google X designed the incentive mechanism to reward failure, reward the number of experiments run else they would never get outlier outcomes and people revert to safe actions that never produce breakthrough results.
I took courage, risk and work to interview a contrarian voice in the DAO, that already has a social cost. This podcast gave Paulo the time and space to unpack design faults and risks occurring in the DAO. That takes guts. If we don’t incentivize this, by the negative we penalize outlier voices from speaking out even further.
I’ve already had many private DMs of people sharing the podcasts were valuable but won’t risk saying so publicly as the signaling cost of expressing views counter to major voices already in power in the DAO is high.
How do we want to incentivize or penalise speaking truth out going forward?
Lastly as a new entrant to the DIP, this is quite demotivating treatment, when I take initiative and it’s something smaller, new and emergent, I think a smaller bonus say 5 points is actually a motivating response to indicate, hey this is promising keep it up, perhaps target more timely or specific proposals or improve production quality, reach etc, vs the all or nothing approach to recognition: the Blockworks podcast on a bigger account is awarded 10 points and the DAO Watch work is cast as worth zero.