A Toast To GoodDollar
As the hype of the community moderation elections winds down it’s time to highlight some achievement that still amaze me and makes me extend my congratulations to this organization:
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4 years of existence, 747,889 total unique users and 10,662 users in the telegram main group.
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1,415 members in Discourse and 1.5K members in Snapshot.
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This voting process had 62 voters, around ⅕ of the amount of the last process (307 voters).
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Of this 62 voters, 6 supported the newly elected 5 members moderation team, around 10% of this process’ voters.
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The quorum for this election was surpassed by 3108.14% and it was covered from the beginnig with a first vote of 1.3M GOOD’s over 960K minimun needed.
So I’ll propose some virtual toasts due to the multiple things this organization should be happy for:
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To opportunity for all: because no matter if someone’s profile doesn’t match the community nor the role needs, or if someone copy another person’s nomination, or if the team doesn’t prepare a presentation at all, or if the team stops campaigning very early in the contend, or even if the a team has a low amount of supporters; someone will always have the chance to win. All they need is to find a single person powerful enough in GOOD’s possesion. This definitely raise the bar for the future voting processes, maybe not in aptitudes but in GOOD token needs, fostering a healthy competition spirit.
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To the respect towards the GoodDollar community: because no matter if the majority’s option doesn’t win; to the organization, their votes are valuable. Besides, participation is the most important, isn’t it? So there’s no way the community feels their votes are irrelevant. Some of them can even receive 2000 G$ of encouragement after voting! Without mentioning the fact that the results were publicly announced hours after the end of the process and curiously minutes after The GOOD Team gave their public formal congratulations. This portraits how crucial the community’s role is in all this process.
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To friendship and loyalty: because no matter if the project and its community are stuck, no matter if there are new and better proposals, or if the community doesn’t want a specific person because of their arbitrary, or if some members of the team do irregular activities that menace the integrity and transparency of the election process; friends must support each other. Positions can be used to smooth the perception of those actions; some can vote for friendship, some others can abstain to maintain appearance and to avoid conflicts of interest because they’re biased or because they don’t want any trouble with their friends. Nothing is more important than friendship.
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To the electoral regularization body: a one person entity that uses their own opinion to speak on behalf of the entire organization and sets the rules ambiguously enough to give space to multiple controversies and opportunities for those that don’t consider professionalism or ethics their strength, monitoring with blind eye to foster freedom of action, and allowing the former moderation team to compete for reelection during 4 periods while being on duty.
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To Anna: who, as an Executive Director, is an excellent business-level GoodDollar’s public face.
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To silence and indulgence: the things that keeps the world this organization its people supposedly want to change in a descending spiral towards doom.
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To ethics, fairness, organization, professionalism and meritocracy: that shone by their absence.
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To mediocrity: the waving flag.
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To the true colors of GoodDollar and the mysterious Good Labs as organizations.
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To the GoodDAO: Pulling out all the stops day by day to be closer to become a conventional government.
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To DeFi the status quo with a new faces status quo made with the old status quo foundations.
There are other pending toasts regarding other topics that i’ll ommit. I don’t want you guys to exceed your alcohol quota.
I apologize for not drinking in these toasts with you all, my stomach doesn’t stand this kind of fancy wines, but I’ll watch the party from my sit. Congratulations!
