First of all, I want to say that I have absolutely no negativity towards clayboyn. I even like some of his ideas.
BUT
$60,000 is too expensive. That's a lot of money for a year. Maybe Matt or other whales living in the US think this is a normal salary, but this is a huge salary in most of the world. And if you take into account the salary in Thailand, then with this money you can hire 4 good programmers. Perhaps clayboyn deserves such a big salary - I don't argue with that. But why would we hire such an expensive specialist for this position?
With this money you can complete soul keep (tower defense) or complete/remake the Splinterlands mobile application. Both are very important for the entire Splinterlands ecosystem, as they will help bring a LOT more people here. While some may disagree about the importance of TD, it is a super popular type of game.
Why is there no open vacancy, but just hiring a specific person? It may be possible to find someone more qualified or with the same qualifications, but at a lower salary. This doesn't look right.
Who and how will evaluate the result of the work? What are the KPIs for this position? How can the community evaluate his performance in listing negotiations if there is an NDA?
If he is hired, then if the contract is terminated early, what penalties will be paid? How much will the community have to pay to terminate the contract early?
Responsibilities:
6.1. Why does the DAO need a representative in relations with Splinterlands? If the community wants something, it creates proposals.
6.2. "provide feedback on player sentiments and desires". Even without this position, Splinterlands knows and understands perfectly well what the community wants:
a. The Secret of Praetoria Expansion
b. Attracting and retaining new players
c.Soulkeep
d. SPS Validators
e. Mobile application
The community also wants deadlines to be strictly adhered to and promises to be kept.
6.3. You don't need a person to create tournaments. Everything can be automated. Unique tournaments happen very rarely for some event, and then they are created by Splinterlands. The community can pay 1 time for someone to create a tournament schedule for a long time (and then just repeat).
6.4. There are many volunteer moderators on the Splinterlands discord. Why do you need someone else?
7.Qualifications:
7.1. If he really was engaged in managing and growing social media accounts, then it’s still better for us to look for someone else, because all the previous promotions on social networks were not very good (no offense).
7.2. $900,000 was allocated for listing on new exchanges and 7 months have already passed, but no progress is visible. Although (if I remember correctly) since then sps have already been removed from one of the exchanges.
A listing negotiator is important, but is he the right person for the job? What experience does he have with this? What coins/tokens did he manage to list and on which exchanges?
7.3. "He has over 10 years of experience in crypto working with multiple projects to build communities" - how successful was this experience?
7.4. "handling strategic partnerships Splinterlands" - what kind of partnership?
With all due respect to clayboyn (whom I have no negativity towards), for now the proposal looks like a clear NO, but if @yabapmatt or @clayboyn can answer all the questions, then the decision may change.
Link to proposal: https://peakd.com/spsproposal/@yabapmatt.sps/sps-governance-proposal-hire-clayboyn-as-dao-community-and-project-manager
Thank you for putting this together. I am sure @clayboyn and @yabapmatt can answer most of this.
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$60K is not an expensive salary. This has nothing to do with the US but with the field in general. This is actually a very low ask. Finding a different qualified, experienced and trustworthy person to do the job he’s proposing at this cost would be near impossible in the crypto space.
This is not accurate. It will cost a lot more than this to finish Soulkeep, and a LOT more to develop a quality mobile app. I mean finishing Rebellion (which had a lot of work already done) cost $250K.
I don’t understand why people are so hung up on this. Go ahead and propose whatever you want if you really feel it’s important. Be aware that ‘headhunting’ to fill a position is a VERY expensive and time consuming process. DO you expect to lay that responsibility on Matt? The team? Do you want to distract them from delivering for SPL right now?
Clay came up with the idea and proposed it as such. Matt liked it enough to make the proposal himself. The term ‘if the shoe fits…’ comes to mind.
Hiring Clay would be one less (and very large) concern for Matt to be distracted by.
Community evaluation by performance. We’ll see how this goes and what value we get out of it. If the community feels he’s not doing what is expected the contract can be terminated at any point.
It’s literally proposed that monthly termination option is part of the contract itself.
Has a lot of statements as opposed to questions, but the reasons the position is important have been widely discussed for the past week. I’d also suggest watching Aftersound’s interview with Clay for insight into this question:
The DAO approved funds to be used for exchange listing when the right opportunity was presented. Thus far this has not happened, and it’s great to see we did not just waste that money simply because it had been earmarked for that purpose.
The rest of this question is definitely important and not my place to answer, but understand that this job goes far beyond just listing. But he does have experience working and communicating with exchanges, which is actually very hard to do. Just trying to communicate with exchanges regarding basic customer service can be incredibly difficult. Having lines of communication already open is a major asset. And he’s also in a unique position to dive right in w/out draining time and energy from the company by having to be ‘brought up to speed’ as would be required of a new hire from outside.
I should have precluded my reply with "These are all excellent questions to ask"!