Two additional items to add more color here:
- I intend to bring a proposal early in Season 4 that moves away from Gold-Silver-Bronze tiers, and towards incentive-based compensation. The simple reason is that the current structure doesn’t serve anyone well:
- People who do a ton of work end up getting underpaid
- People whose work does not match up well to a fixed rate (e.g. content generation) end up with a major mismatch, i.e. their payment doesn’t match their output at all.
Structuring pay to better reflect outcomes should help address this & ensure that people can be paid fairly based on the work they’re doing.
- What Alex has outlined in this proposal, i.e. a contributor applying directly to the DAO for a scope of work, is what we envision for Season 5 and beyond. This ensures that any contributor who believes they can add value is welcome to submit a proposal, alone or as part of a group, to provide ministerial services. This type of permissionless application, which the DAO can consider and then vote on, is much more closely aligned with the values and ethos of the space. Contributors who craft strong proposals should see them pass with no issue, and this also forces strong accountability, since the DAO itself will be the one judging whether a proposal has merit.