Thanks for the clarifications in all those areas because I am certain that most people don’t even have any idea about what is actually going on.
While I am aware of the above, my [core] point about MarComms was geared towards Popil (who is active, present, has done work etc) and Linstro (who, for all intent and purposes, is still a no show). They were both elected at the same time.
Yup. Yet another example of how utterly inefficiently this whole thing is. Hence my attempt to hopefully fix it via AIP-465: Alignment Of Working Group Terms And Budgets and AIP-467: Proposal To Revise Special Council & WG Stewards Term Limits
But more to the point, OKRs and KPIs are useless unless they are adhered to and are enforceable. Due to the fact that all WGs are, for all intent and purposes, their own self-contained nation states (yay! decentralization - not really), there tends to be very little transparency and accountability.
And due to the nature of the political appointments, I don’t believe that even the Special Council has the standing (or do they?) to take action if a particular WG steward fails to adhere to charters, goals etc. It’s why I wrote this proposal to get clarity on that AIP-469: Ape Foundation To Clarify Ability To Terminate Contracts because we have to be able to take action without having to go through a proposal route which is likely to fail at vote when the people we are trying to eject, get their friends ensure that it fails to pass.
Aside from the fact that the DAO leadership acts on a buddy system whereby when our friends aren’t holding up their end of the deal, the default position is to look the other way. And it’s precisely why I had long held that the GwG being the only WG that has actually done more for the community, that we seemingly have no basis to create more bureaucracy with all these other WGs. I wrote this AIP-358: Ape Assembly Restructuring For Independence proposal back in Oct specifically to address this issue; but the Ape Assembly was subsequently closed, I ate a three-month ban over the Polygon/ApeChain fiasco, and even though it expired in Feb, I decided not to return because, like most (several have since left), I had grown tired of all the on-going nonsense and failings. Only ApeChain brought me back once I saw a glimmer of hope for the prosperity of our DAO and how I could make a significant difference.
There is no prosperity without transparency and accountability. None. And yet still, though I am all but certain that everyone who is active in this DAO knows this, they are silent because, aside from it always being someone else’s problem, nobody wants to rock “da club’s” apple cart, let alone speak up and be singled out. And most of us who do complain and moan publicly and privately, aren’t alone. This was Garga back on May 25th echoing the very same sentiments that he has expressed to others (we have a few people in common).
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"*So far the only way for ApeCoin holders to express themselves has been the DAO, in straight up governance. There’s been a lot of messy ***. The stuff that democracy and lack of vision will engender.
DAO ended up with all the negative parts of decentralization, and almost none of the positives, like permissionless building. "
Yet, here I am, once again (AIP-358 was the first attempt), talking about closing three largely ineffective WGs which are costing the DAO money, the stewards have treated the charter, KPIs and OKRs like mere suggestions, and to the extent that as per this incident MarComms WG, one of two stewards is literally a no show. But somehow, this is all perfectly OK because it’s not our personal money, it’s always someone else’s problem, and most Apes seemingly have no concept of transparency or accountability - yet wonder why “number not go up” anywhere.
But yeah, ApeChain is totally going to fix everything, we’re going to make a lot of money and the treasury is totally going back from $100M to $1.4B. Totally.
I don’t care what anyone says, the DAO is the core of the community as that’s why it was created in the first place. Not Twitter. Not the RL events where it’s always the same faces in the churn, not your PFP. Go read the apecoin.com about page for a refresher course.
If the DAO - that being us, right here - continues to be seen as this listless entity and for which it continuously faces derision and disdain - it’s simply because we haven’t done a very good job; even as we watch both the treasury and the token race to zero. There, I’ve said it.
Thanks, but I view that as a waste of both our times because there’s literally nothing that either one of us can say, write or do without transparency and accountability. I’d rather be publicly voicing my opinions so that they are retained for the DAO record. Regardless, as you well know, I am always happy to help wherever I can.
ps. I believe that we should close these three WGs and then the GwG, like they did with the secretary, can move Popil or any other person of their own choosing, under their purview as the marketing person. Then they can have her work with third-party teams/firms to come up with a robust and effective marketing plan for the DAO. But these three WGs have no reason or basis to exist.