Thank you for the response @MathildaDV it is helpful.
We understand motivations of COCM and have the trust it is well designed & executed.
Thus I think we are aligned with COCM in principle, however we still find it challenging to understand how it actually play out given the algorithm complexity.
It will be great if some heruistic metrics/elaborations are published alongside the matching results (besides on-chain calculations as proposed),
for examples we wonder, for each project
- how many donors are filtered in the first place (base on Passport MBD)?
- % of donors donating to other projects?
- donor similarity for the project and how is that being calculated?
- visualized comparsion re diversity for projects?
In our case in last round with same COCM mechanism we were fortunately a top matched project (hackathon alumini). While this time similarily we raised donations from quite some different communities and with the large contributors count come organically, we are left feeling “yea we should be diverse with a valuable community” with COCM saying “no not actually diverse enough”.
Anyway just two cents from a project perspective, and we would love to communicate things clearly to our supporters as well.
Still have to say, thank you Gitcoin!