Always two sides of the story so I like to get it all before I make any judgement call. I'll be honest the threating nature and manipulation talk from Aggy is unneeded and was uncalled for. But Aggy isn't in control of Splinterlands anymore instead Matt is and Matt has done a good job I think in presenting it. *I thought he should have kept out the mention of other exchanges as that did come off threating even though I don't think he meant it to.
I personally feel Splinterlands has brought in at LEAST $500,000 worth of new users, buying hive assets and contributing value into Hive over the years that this is a simple ask to support a good application on hive. I have no issue with the ask and feel this should be passed. It's proven to have brought value exceeding the ask and will continue to do so in the future. That's the type of stuff we need to support around here emotions aside (Because honestly the emotions around here are so crazy that I would be in favor of just dropping and burning all the DHF funds at this point and never restocking it. Feels like it does more damage then good around here.)
Nothing emotional here before aggy sent fake love. I just don't agree with funding proposals that don't present a clear plan how the funds will be used. That was my main takeaway from valueplan, and I'm not gonna change that just because the SPL team is so nice (lol).
That's fair and I'd agree a solid plan of action and accounting should be present for a DHF fund. I'd even say it needs to have updates along with it to show how the money was spent and that it's proving to have positive results. DHF funds need to be used effective and provide value and more then they take IMO.
So how is it both sides then? Their proposal was lacking, and instead of correcting it in a timely manner they went around bullying and bribing.
I think for me it's because I go to the town halls, interact and watch the discord channels and been with the game since Alpha that I was ok with the lack of information because I see more of what's going on then someone on hive that wouldn't be playing the game and as super active in the community. So those unknowns to me where already fulfilled simply because of the close interaction I've had with the application over the many years. While I can see from your viewpoint that it's missing and I would agree that it in fact is and would be confusing and a very hard unknown ask from the outside looking in.
I also believe that there's really two proposals that should be made instead of this one. One for work to be done to integrate brand awareness and more hive details into the game to expose more players to hive and then a proposal later with better details for a marketing plan which would be backed with conversion numbers via the new onboarding system they are still currently working on.
these are good points.
breaking it up into smaller trackable proposals with more promotion of Hive, could provide a lot of value.