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Dash Could be #1
As we know, our Treasury Funds are a *potential* major advantage that Dash has over our competition, if we can spend it well!
We have over hundreds of thousands of USD equivalent unspent every month and I believe that the proposal fee is actually a major handicap - preventing potentially awesome people with creative ideas from helping the Dash project.
With the Proposal Template as a filter, we can open up the doors to the masses who dare to spend the time to come up with an idea and create a proposal - a daunting task in and of itself. Blacklist the proposals that don't follow the Template - that will be our gate keeper.
We also require a trusted escrow service to hold the funds for performance milestones of every proposal.
This should be integrated into the Proposal Template. Options?
Arguments Against Proposal Fee:
- Since our network is still relatively unknown in the world, largely only smart young people and/or smaller net worth individuals and nerds know about Dash, little own people who will take the time to make a proposal. Most professionals have high paying jobs, families and hobbies and couldn't GAF about Dash. "High quality proposals" from professionals will be few and far between, regardless of proposal fee. This should not be our goal or target demographic at this point.
-Trying to prevent "spam" by having a ~$1000 USD entry fee is not only preventing young people and lower net worth individuals with potentially creative ideas from proposing them and contributing to the project but also DASH is losing the potential awesome impact of these ideas that aren't even shown the light of day. We are limiting our Proposals to a small demographic of people who have been in crypto - this is ludicrous.
- Ryan Taylor is hiring a top-tier marketing company that will satisfy much of the "Professional, high quality proposal" aspects that the "no" MNO votes have been concerned about. Therefore, the "mass market education and marketing" will be handled by a top-tier pro marketing firm and what we actually need is small, grassroots type marketing campaigns that educates people and offers incentives to use Dash.
- The proposal fee puts up a psychological barrier that one has to have some type of membership to an exclusive economic status club to be able to contribute to Dash project. We should be more open-minded and present ourselves as a community that accepts ideas from people from any economic background.
End the proposal fee for a period of 3 months and see what effect it has.
Vote "Yes" to open proposals up to the free market and maximize the advantage of the Dash Treasury!
As we know, our Treasury Funds are a *potential* major advantage that Dash has over our competition, if we can spend it well!
We have over hundreds of thousands of USD equivalent unspent every month and I believe that the proposal fee is actually a major handicap - preventing potentially awesome people with creative ideas from helping the Dash project.
With the Proposal Template as a filter, we can open up the doors to the masses who dare to spend the time to come up with an idea and create a proposal - a daunting task in and of itself. Blacklist the proposals that don't follow the Template - that will be our gate keeper.
We also require a trusted escrow service to hold the funds for performance milestones of every proposal.
This should be integrated into the Proposal Template. Options?
Arguments Against Proposal Fee:
- Since our network is still relatively unknown in the world, largely only smart young people and/or smaller net worth individuals and nerds know about Dash, little own people who will take the time to make a proposal. Most professionals have high paying jobs, families and hobbies and couldn't GAF about Dash. "High quality proposals" from professionals will be few and far between, regardless of proposal fee. This should not be our goal or target demographic at this point.
-Trying to prevent "spam" by having a ~$1000 USD entry fee is not only preventing young people and lower net worth individuals with potentially creative ideas from proposing them and contributing to the project but also DASH is losing the potential awesome impact of these ideas that aren't even shown the light of day. We are limiting our Proposals to a small demographic of people who have been in crypto - this is ludicrous.
- Ryan Taylor is hiring a top-tier marketing company that will satisfy much of the "Professional, high quality proposal" aspects that the "no" MNO votes have been concerned about. Therefore, the "mass market education and marketing" will be handled by a top-tier pro marketing firm and what we actually need is small, grassroots type marketing campaigns that educates people and offers incentives to use Dash.
- The proposal fee puts up a psychological barrier that one has to have some type of membership to an exclusive economic status club to be able to contribute to Dash project. We should be more open-minded and present ourselves as a community that accepts ideas from people from any economic background.
End the proposal fee for a period of 3 months and see what effect it has.
Vote "Yes" to open proposals up to the free market and maximize the advantage of the Dash Treasury!
