Hi @justineh.
First of all thanks for all the great work that you have done up until this point to get #hive noticed and onto exchanges. It's a very important task and I'm sure that it took a lot of time and effort on your behalf and a lot of us appreciate it, even if not everybody does. With that said you've been here long enough to know that there will always be the people trying to drag others into the ground no matter what they do.
My main problem with the proposal and what i'm sure has gotten a lot of users on the opposite side of it has to do with the phrasing where you look for compensation for work completed.
In my opinion, when a person does a job regardless of how well or time consuming it is. They cannot then come back and look to be compensated for it unless there was something put in place before the work was done. At the time of doing the work you were putting in your time and effort as a #hive stakeholder on behalf of the community and that is to be commended. Just like a lot of witnessess, devs, users and external people.
What I could and would have gladly supported is a proposal stating the work that you have done on behalf of #hive in the past. That you feel we need a person working towards all of the stated goals and with your past experiences in this field would like to be funded to cover this area.
As a person in business i would need to see a plan for work to be completed, regular updates on work that you have completed and a rough estimation of your costs and time being put towards the work. As you have stated in a lot of places that the wages are on par with a centralized blockchain company which we are not. We are a small start up and any centralized company would need a job outline and progress reports to hire an employee.
I feel that funding on the DAO should be a lot more structured in general and that similar to yourself, any project should have at least a prototype or reference of work completed, before looking to get funded to bring it further. We have a great chance to do better than with #steem and having smart, qualified and enthusiastic people working towards the same goal would be a huge advantage for us.
I'm only a small stake holder and think that you have done a great job so far but this is how I feel about the proposal and as a reference for future proposals by other people going forward. We will need funds for people to complete work as a decentralized eco-system but I would like to see it from a more business perspective if the fund will be paying them to complete it.
I've covered this in the above post and why tracking progress is a bit more difficult. I am working on a better way to do so.
As far as past work, I'm not entirely sure what the issue is there? I did work, work no one else was doing and work that was vital to be done. I state I will continue doing such work.
We have no Steemit inc now and things need to be done for the core of Hive, we have developers and others working on many aspects and are/will be seeing proposals for work completed as well as work to be done.
The idea that this is a bill without a contract is not really how any of this works and this is blockchain and crypto, not normal business.. things work differently.
My proposal isn't a bill, it's a proposal for accomplishments done.. which imo saved the community money, and work to be accomplished. Many stakeholders knew I was doing the work, so it's not as if I just sprung this on people.
If the community was not aware, yes I need to improve upon communication of work going forward.
This isn't a bill, I expect nothing. It's a proposal that, if stakeholders feel is worth supporting, they can do so. The option of partial payment is also an option (which I cover in another comment).
I think most of the negative response is due to thinking I'm asking to be paid for tweeting and spreading the word, when in fact my work was very very different. This post is to help clarify that aspect.
I fully respect people not agreeing with the amount and support them in voicing that.