Hi Justineh, I have been following closely the events after you submitted your proposal for consideration.... I'll try to comment on my perspective of how I see things and I will dare to give some recommendations.

I know that with the virus issue and the huge asshole JS is, many don't hold the Chinese culture with high regard atm, but I always push for no overgeneralization, Chinese culture and history is filled with great things that cannot be tainted with the attitude of a few... That being said there's an idiom in Chinese that goes like: the forest is really big, every kind of bird exist within it. The meaning is that you shouldn't be surprised to the degree some people can be really toxic because it's just part of the human nature to have some individuals to be a constant pain for many others (just as JS was for us during many weeks)... I'm not labeling your detractors here, they are some that have been raising reasonable concerns and this call just for a more detailed explanation of your proposal, such as the one you just made. So please, don't feel tired be the bumps down the road, because first there are going to be many more bumps and second so far I think you're doing a terrific job, so please enjoy the fact that your doing your best and your getting terrific results out of your efforts as well... If you encounter someone who's being a complete asshole, please try your best to learn something from him and go for what will nurture you in a most successful and wise person.

About your proposal in particular I would like to clarify the way I see things... You're perspective is that compared to the 800k a month the former mismanaged company dumped on a monthly basis to get 10% of what current devs are doing on Hive we have a team doing such a terrific work for less than 100k per month. So you see a great improvement there (I agree), but please keep in mind that the majority of the community never saw Ned dumping the Steem, imagine if we could see a post there with a live following up how a sell order of 800k worth of Steem, imagine the huge shitstorm that could have generated lol... Here on Hive (thanks to our awesome devs) we have a live following up of the process each proposal undergoes before passing the return proposal benchmark... So it's like the little demon inside some people don't dare to be so vocal when criticizing the pay rates for devs because they don't have a clue about coding, but when they see your proposal it's like : "hey I could have done that, in fact I did a lot to contribute to achieve that goal, thus shouldn't I be paid as well? She gets to be paid because of her pretty face and because of her connections with whales here, such a corrupt oligarchy the witnesses and whales have established on Hive!!" (Factor in coronavirus lockdown stress into that and you get a clearer image of the reason some people behave like they have been behaving).

So, are they wrong? I tend to think they are just failing to provide valid points to support their claims so yes so far I think they are just being annoying... But they're opinion should just be labeled as trolish or just ill-intended? No! I think you should use the situation to polish the mechanism how proposals are made and explained to justify the budget requested from the DHF (I know core devs and whales listen to you, so please let me know what do you think about this idea of mine, if you agree I and pass it on I think I might have contributed somehow to this place and that's very rewarding for me)... I think devs should pour more information about the rates similar works get paid in the Industry and compare it with the ones they requested. They should explain with more insight the value their proposal adds to the platform, so more professional and factual decisions can be made about proposals and hence we achieve yet another milestone for our great community! A professional-managed, self replenishing fund that is a great hedge that increases exponentially the chances of our success.

You might ask why they should go all te way out and add the burden to explain their proposals with that degree of detail? Well because it's a better approach to do it this way, on Hive you're supposed to be a shareholder just by holding HP... So people submitting proposals to the DHF should submit a proposal to a shareholder board with hundreds of passionate, dedicated and sometimes idiotic stakeholders but as idiotic some might be others are just brilliant and I think we should always push ourselves to do things with the best quality we can...

This is a whole new level from the management procedures we are used to, but hey this is decentralization! This is us creating a new paradigm!! So bring on the challenges so we can tell the great history of how we overcame them 😊

Best regards.