Proposal “dn-discord-renewal-06-11“ (Completed)Back
Title: | Dash Nation on Discord Renewal (Expanding To Other Forums) |
Owner: | TaoOfSatoshi |
Monthly amount: | 21 DASH (1266 USD) |
Completed payments: | 5 totaling in 105 DASH (0 month remaining) |
Payment start/end: | 2018-05-19 / 2018-10-15 (added on 2018-05-25) |
Votes: | 1026 Yes / 157 No / 9 Abstain |
Proposal description
Hello, I’m Tao Of Satoshi.
You may know me from my YouTube channel Cash Alternative TV, my Twitter account @CashAlternative, or from my role as the founder of the Dash Nation movement, and owner of the Dash Nation on Discord server.
This proposal seeks renewal funding for me and my team to continue offering a steady collaboration and communication platform with the Dash Nation on Discord channel, as well as assuming moderator duties in other areas such as Reddit and Dash Forum.
Out of the ashes of previous iterations, Dash Nation Slack was a great place for Dashers to hang out, collaborate, and exchange opinions and stories about Dash. Unfortunately, this platform did not want to cater to communities, even successful ones. As such, there did not exist any type of moderation tools with teeth to deal with the inevitable arrival of spammers and scammers.
On October 18th, 2017, Dash Nation moved to its now permanent home on the Discord platform. After taking awhile to hit its stride after being ripped from its former home, Dash Nation is now thriving on Discord. The moderation tools there are more efficient to deal with the problems, and Discord caters to communities. On top of this, Discord also offers their platform free of charge.
A few Dash Nation on Discord stats:
– Members: 4022
– Categories: 17 (General Chat, Markets, Development, Dash Projects, Proposal discussion and more)
– Dash proposals that communicate and collaborate on Dash Nation: 21 known
A community generally does not moderate itself, however, and Dash Nation is no exception to this. After learning from failed experiences, I devised a list of simple rules that need to be in place to have a respectful, semi-professional environment that would be very open and receptive to newcomers. Ever since I became in charge of Dash Nation Slack, I have moderated it and Dash Nation on Discord to the best of my ability.
I will be expanding my role to become a moderator on Reddit and Dash Forum as well, and would submit my name for consideration to become community manager as well. After recent events, I am eager to represent Dash to the best of my ability, and uphold its standards that we should be proud of. Above all, treating everyone with fairness. Rules apply to everyone, including myself and the moderation team. We would also like to ask for a little funding to begin actively engaging in tipping for valuable contributions to Dash Nation on Discord, this budget would be divided among the moderators to distribute.
Please support Dash Nation on Discord, help keep our forums semi-professional, and let’s keep building the movement!
Monthly breakdown of renewal terms: (5 months of services, June-October)
Reimbursement of proposal fee: 1 Dash
Tao Of Satoshi Discord, Reddit and Dash Forum moderation and community engagement services: 15 Dash
Engagement (tipping) budget: 3 Dash
Miscellaneous (hiring new moderators, possible Discord collaborations) 2 Dash
Total monthly amount: 21 Dash
As always, I will maintain a strict accounting of budget funding and will forward unused funds to the following renewal.
Cheers, Tao Of Satoshi
Vote Yes: gobject vote-many 477f52cc73d6c9eaa2aff461052756ee248d71b50e556bc9821146613386a10d funding yes
Vote No: gobject vote-many 477f52cc73d6c9eaa2aff461052756ee248d71b50e556bc9821146613386a10d funding no
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https://www.reddit.com/r/dashpay/comments/9k9ozn/comment/e6yng9c?st=JMQOQ9HK&sh=54290321
I have nothing to hide, my door is always open. Thanks for your continuing support. Cheers.
http://www.dashnation.com/news/an-official-message-from-the-dash-nation-moderation-team/
Dash Nation on Discord Renewal by TaoOfSatoshi
http://bit.ly/DWDashNationSEP18
https://www.reddit.com/r/dashpay/comments/9k9ozn/comment/e6yng9c?st=JMQOQ9HK&sh=54290321
It shouldn’t be too difficult for you, considering you “have seen firsthand”.
In the absence of such evidence, I will simply consider your post as “speculation as fact. :-) Have a nice day.
If you find one of your posts deleted and you feel that you are being treated unfairly, feel free to contact me. I don’t take any actions I can’t justify.
I’ve been doing this for a long time and my fairness has been judged by the MNs. I take pride in my work.
The posted rules are all I go by, not personal opinions. They have no place in moderation decisions. Cheers.
Dash Nation on Discord Renewal (Expanding To Other Forums) by TaoOfSatoshi
https://dashwatch.org/files/1535390978970.pdf
Not all moderators are bad, and not all of the censorship is even intentional. It's difficult to discern legitimate worry from concern trolling and some of them just lack the judgement. It takes intelligence to separate trolls and haters from legitimate critics and some of them just don't have it.
TaoOfSatoshi violated his own rules and policy by allowing a non-MNO moderator the_desert_lynx to engage in non-moderator activity repeatedly in the MNO-only chatroom. He continued to do so after it was pointed out. The most plausible explanation is because he didn't like the opposing viewpoint or person in opposition to his views.
So again, is this what MNOs want? paid thugs to plug your ears and shut the mouths of the messengers you can't be bothered to shoot personally?
Dash Nation on Discord Renewal (Expanding To Other Forums)
https://dashwatch.org/files/1532770240888.pdf
Voting no x12.
Dash Nation on Discord Renewal (Expanding To Other Forums) by TaoOfSatoshi
https://dashwatch.org/files/1530052305369.pdf
The miscellaneous part of the budget will be used to reward mods that aren’t currently being paid. Next renewal I will streamline everything so as to all be under the same proposal.
As for my remuneration, one needs to look no further than the Bitcoin and BTC Reddits to see the damage that can be done by not having a stable, fair place to communicate based on facts, not influencing opinion based on censorship, and posting baseless speculation as fact. It does irreparable damage to the community, and sets back growth.
Dash Nation, on the Discord, Reddit, and Dash Forum, will provide this positive, stable environment. The benefits of that aspect more than outweigh the ask I have made to the network.
Hope this helps.
"I will be expanding my role to become a moderator on Reddit and Dash Forum as well, and would submit my name for consideration to become community manager as well"
Fernando and me had multiple conversations with Tao about this , and yes we totally support the efforts , he would be a great help for the Forum Moderation !
God's speed ; )
Now seriously, it is great to that are willing to step up on this. I'm sure both Reddit and Dash Forum will be a better place to discuss because of your involvement and TroyDash's.
http://www.dashnation.com/news/proposal-dash-nation-on-discord-renewal-expanding-to-other-forums/
Also are you or DFN currently paying for moderators on Discord Dash?
And yes Dash Nation Discord is awesome!
Myself, Joel, Mark, splawik, Triptolemoose, Delta engine, and moocow are unpaid mods.
Myself, Joel, Mark, splawik and moocow are happy to help mod for free and are not seeking any funding to do so.
TroyDash, Agnewpickens and Macrochip are the most active mods so Dash Force pays them on behalf of the community to show our appreciation for their efforts. Moocow is also very active helping run spam bot filters and lots of other work behind the scenes that keep Discord running smoothly.
Arthyron is the latest Discord mod. I have been talking to him for a week or 2 about joining Dash Force and he will officially start next month.
Regarding the Slack funds, you will find a detailed report here. The remainder at the end was used to fund my services for April, at a discounted rate.
http://www.dashnation.com/news/dash-nation-slack-discord-upgrade-report/
Currently, DN moderators are paid from Dash Force funds, an arrangement I see no problem with, but could change in the future were it to become one.
And yet this never happened.
He remains the Steven Seagal of Dash. He gets stuff done efficiently without needing praise and glamour. He is the quintessential Dash Ambassador. I also thought his idea for a Dash Dolphin mascot was worth exploring.
IN short-TaoOFSatoshi inspires others to join-FACT.
If you are a MNO be sure to contact a mod and we will add you to the discord #MNO channels.
Invite link: https://discord.gg/9z8zX5j
https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/basilpop-the-dash-subreddit-moderator-does-not-have-the-temperament-to-be-a-moderator-part-2.37699/
If I become moderator on Reddit and Dash Forum, the rules that have made Dash Nation on Discord a great communication environment will be in effect in those forums as well.
Everyone, including moderators, will have to follow these rules. You have my word on that. I consider fairness to be of the utmost importance. Ask my DN mod team, I’ve nodded myself countless times... :-)
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