Welcome!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNAV6MvKcSY&feature=emb_imp_woyt

Here's a quick demo of the site. I'm not happy with the quality of the video so I'll replace it at some point.

If you aren't asking for funding, what is it you want, feedback? You should have it available on Platform.

AgnewPickens - Thanks for the feedback. There was an old forum post for the proposals last year, but I'll start a new thread to freshen the discussion. Regarding the choice to post a proposal - I'm open to feedback and discussion both on the forum and here, but the proposal is asking another question to another audience. This proposal is essentially asking the voting members if they want the Dash Town Hall, or something similar. Are we happy with Dash Central and MNO Watch? If so, then we probably don't need the Dash Town Hall and I can stop wasting my time, efforts and money on this project.

There is not only dashcentral.org and mnowatch.org

There is also dashtalk.org, dashninja.pl, reddit and several open or closed membership discord channels.

I think the Dash community suffers from decentralization of information.

Not having a single point where all the dash member can communicate eachother causes misinformation and misunderstanding.

On the other hand, if we have a single point-aggregator of all the dash channels, we may start suffering from spaming.

It is a chicken-egg problem.

That's true.

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/927:_Standards

One of my biggest pet peeves is people who try to re-invent the wheel. I wouldn't be making these efforts if I didn't feel like there are massive improvements to be made. I'll add some of those to the description of this proposal (so that they're not lost in the discussion).

It would save you some Dash if you would discuss stuff with other voters, we have a fairly active chat of the dash.org Forum, I have my own pre-proposal for Governance, but Dash can't stop you if you want to build Dash Town Hall with no Treasury funds, regardless the outcome of the vote.

https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/dash-town-hall-2022.53459/

I don't see much upgrade over dashcentral... what even happened to Nexus? Why a third governance site rather than upgrading dashcentral or Nexus with whatever ideas you have?

Also your repeated mentions of moderation annoys me.

It was moderation of the Dash subreddit by Basilpop that completely DESTROYED the Dash community.

Moderators need to kill themselves.

Not to mention the corruption of Joel Valenzuela and Mark Mason in controlling the discords. These guys are basically trying to corner the market on Dash information so they can manipulate our narrative and push agendas that we don't agree with. Basilpop, Joel and Mark, as well as solarguy2003 (stillcantstop here, a moderator which took the side of monero, our bitter competition and used censorship to destroy the dashpay sub) are all detrimental to the community and have betrayed our trust. Excommunication is called for. Its that or they continue to parasite off the network while simultaneously destroying it.

I agree. Moderation is an acceptable practice, only if it is approved by the reader. So whatever moderation should be an optional service, and not installed by default.

I'm building another app, and the moderation rules there will be: no names, and every part of the post should move the discussion forward. We also have a 'moderator transparency' page which shows how many posts each moderator has denied. What do you think of this setup?

You do realise you are asking for 1 dash to be funded, through one-time payment ?

There is also a budget request history of Dash Town Hall, where one of the budget proposals was funded and one not.

See : https://imgur.com/v1KWvRP

1 Dash is the new 5 Dash. :)

Qwizzie - Thanks for highlighting the history of the proposal...Let's take a look at it, and I think it'll help us understand the motivations behind this proposal as well as the project as a whole.

Last year I was attempting to launch the website with a couple of paid moderators. I was assuming that the community would welcome a nexus replacement. There was so much discussion about the funding that this year I've decided to completely remove that issue until we know what the community wants.

As you highlighted... the community approved one proposal and denied the next. As a proposal owner, this can be pretty confusing and discouraging. It's difficult, and maybe impossible to really get a genuine message from yes no votes, and this is why I'm not requesting any funds over the cost of the proposal fee this time. The purpose of this proposal is to ask the network if this project is something they want....yes or no. If the MNO's decide that this project might have merit, and if the votes are clear I'll start funding an app which will accomplish the same features (and more).

If you have any questions whatsoever about this project please direct them here. There is an old forum post for this project which I'll also check, but likely not as often. You can also reach me directly at Help@dashtownhall.com

I suspect the previous budget proposal of Dash Town Hall did not pass, because Dash Town Hall requested funding again the very next month.

Potentially, but it's pretty difficult to say with any certainty what the motivations of the voters were. You might also notice that the proposal had a majority of yes votes (330/102/137 from your graphic), and failed to pass due to a lack of voter participation. Your narrative might be correct, but by submitting proposals without any requesting significant funds we should better be able to see what the network wants, right?

I think your governance question should become more generic.

Do not focus on your personal site, but rather on what you think the community would like to see built.

By proposing generic governance questions you welcome developer's competition, and thus your governance proposal has more chances to pass.

Thank you for the feedback.