This proposal requests a top-up of the moderation team bounty to continue incentivizing authorized Polkadot Moderators for their round-the-clock contribution and community support. The rates used for payment and number of hours paid in the previous top-up apply here, and the number of moderators has reduced by 2, compared with the last top-up.
Note that the amount requested goes into bounty 24's account - 13UVJyLnbVp9RBZYFwHYxa8eRNp4fdda3zTNHF9RnfBBAnbv. You can confirm this by checking here
The post for this proposal was originally made 8 days ago here
The bounty was last topped up 10 months ago here and currently has a balance of 6,271 DOT ($43,000). The bounty account can be checked here
The team currently comprises Eleven (11) members with significant involvement in the ecosystem, covering five media channels. This ensures that they can keep abreast of recent advancements in the ecosystem and effectively assist the community as needed. You can find the list of members here as well as in the proposal document
With the new Community Management initiative led by the Marketing Bounty, community moderators will be spread across Polkadot media channels, and will work closely with Community Managers to maintain the Polkadot community.
This proposal requests a one-year top-up of USD 191,040.00 (27,330.5 DOT) to continue funding the Community Moderators.
Details of the proposal including changes since the last top-up, analytics of servers and channels under our moderation umbrella, etc can be found in the proposal document
Data on previous spends can be found in the team's Airtable Base
We look forward to your participation and input.
Thank you!
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The Polkadot community has so much potential, but let’s address the elephant in the room.
The 'Polkadot Watercooler' channel on Element is largely inactive, with even basic questions often going unanswered. The same applies to the 'Polkadot (Official)' channel on Discord — there’s virtually no activity across the board. Even the screenshots provided show only a handful of messages being sent.
I’d genuinely love to see more concrete examples of what this team has accomplished over the past year.
There’s an incredible opportunity to enhance engagement and support within the community, but I’m struggling to see how this referendum or group is driving progress in that direction.