# Team 20 - Contributor Mining — Get the contributors paid

**URL:** <https://forum.arbitrum.foundation/t/team-20-contributor-mining-get-the-contributors-paid/21517>\
**Category:** GovHack Denver\
**Created:** [February 27, 2024, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.arbitrum.foundation/t/team-20-contributor-mining-get-the-contributors-paid/21517 "2024-02-27T18:42:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 28, 2024, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.arbitrum.foundation/t/team-20-contributor-mining-get-the-contributors-paid/21517/6 "2024-02-28T16:44:07Z")

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> [@jacobpphillips](#):
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> Much more significant economics to drive the top of funnel — it doesn’t appear the delegate incentive program is changing contributor behavior much

It is a mistake to think that the behavior of collaborators = delegates, they are two different roles and therefore different incentives. What we intend with the program is that delegates who have voting power and are the decision makers can dedicate time and quality to their roles within the government.

Even you clarify them here:

> [@jacobpphillips](#):
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> (Reminder: we all just spent the past 2 days working on ARB governance for free 😉 )

Since the approval of the program to date we have observed that some delegates have become more active. You can review test [1](https://forum.arbitrum.foundation/t/experimental-delegate-incentive-test-1/20944) and [2](https://forum.arbitrum.foundation/t/experimental-delegate-incentive-test-2/21172)

On the other hand the program starts on March 1, it has not started yet so we do not have exact metrics at the moment, there are really improvements.

> [@\[DIP v1.0\]March 1 Incentive program start](https://forum.arbitrum.foundation/t/march-1-incentive-program-start/21492):
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> We are only 3 days away from the start of the Delegate Incentive Program! We are excited to announce that it won’t be long until the start of the program. Since December, we have been collecting a lot of data from delegates to see how impactful their participation was and how we can make significant improvements from now on. During our work, we have done an exploration of the delegates data to determine the exact participation of each delegate on all tally votes, with the exception of the test…

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