It was a pleasant surprise that the Community Management Team (CMT) is still functioning. At least formally.
After the lack of regular (every 3 months) relevant proposals, I assumed that the CMT was no longer there.
First, I generally agree with @obscar’s opinion: there is no coordinated community and the number of active members is extremely small. It can be considered that there is no community as such.
Regarding the checks of quest completion on the Zealy platform, I already wrote in the comments to GIP-51.
The team’s response boiled down to the fact that checks will now be done every week. Indeed, checks were carried out regularly for a certain period of time.
But at the moment, quests have not been checked for 9 months.
Well, if quest checks on Zealy are no longer provided, then the quests themselves are no longer needed. And therefore, they could be removed. This was not done. As long as quests are present, they remain working and require regular checks.
For information purposes, I will show data on the number of voters and the number of comments in the latest proposals.
- Proposal No. Start date Votes Comments
- GIP-66 02.07.2024 12 4
- GIP-67 12.07.2024 16 26
- GIP-68/69/70/71/72 18.07.2024 10/9/10/12/11 11
- GIP-73 24.09.2024 5 6
- GIP-73 16.10.2024 12 6
- GIP-74 31.10.2024 12 17
- GIP-75 26.11.2024 10 6
- GIP-76 18.12.2024 6 6
Total: 125 votes, 82 comments.
125 + 82 = 207 quests in Zealy (the number is approximate, may differ from the real one in both directions) in 9 months.
Probably, checking such a number of quests causes difficulties for CMT. Or, perhaps, additional payment is required?
Unfortunately, ordinary members of the community (like me, for example) cannot see and evaluate this work, if it is being done.
Personally, I can only evaluate the work of CMT on platforms like Zealy, Discord, Goldfinch Governance Forum. CMT’s lack of attention to some tasks (like Zealy) gives the impression that no work is being done at all.
This is exactly the impression I have at the moment.
In my opinion, CMT activity should be visible in all directions.
Checking quests every few months and the subsequent appearance of the corresponding proposal is similar to “begging” for another portion of funding.
Some people earn less in their full-time jobs. So “modest” is a relative term here.
Here I am rather against. If CMT did not request the required funds in advance, it means they did not need them. I am used to the fact that people who work intensively usually decide on their payment in advance.
I am against it. It is unclear how CMT members are responsible for the work they have done. It is unclear how the community can influence the amount of pay for a CMT member who does not fulfill their responsibilities.
As a result, I am against this proposal in its current form.
But I am not against the team continuing to work. And in general, I’m not against people making money.
In my opinion, when the community does not see the results of CMT’s work, a proposal for pay for 1 month should be made. And then, based on the results of the CMT work (the results that will be visible to community members), we can move on to proposals every 3 months, as was the case before.
Let me clarify that this is my opinion at the moment. Like any opinion, it can change over time, and quite quickly )