This is a very funny situation. Option 4 doesnât mean only grant reviewing. On that logic everything that the other workstream do can be outsourced via Upwork? Am I wrong to assume this? I thought this was a DAO or is it a CAO in which we call it a DAO, but itâs just a corporation thatâs online 24/7 ? Is that the vision? I donât think soâŚ
The FDD has multiple algorithmic solutions and the [Reward system] (GIA Rewards OKR Report) ( includes grant reviewers and is only one of the solutions).
The total cost of the grant reviews was exactly 14k last season and we protected millions of dollars of funds(more from an eligibility POV) . Do you think itâs expensive to do manual grant ?
reviews? 
I donât think you actually know the issues/challenges we face as the FDD and even more so in the GIA which is in charge of grant reviewing. 14K was the cost of 12.000-15.000 reviews! The FDD does not mean grant reviewingâŚ
We could hire people from upwork but that will cost us even moreâŚWe will need to train each of themâŚtakes a season or two. We actually pay our reviewers with 10-20$ per hour atm⌠On another note I really thought we had the ethos of decentralization here, but like reading your comments I kinda see through that âmirageâ. Even the way in which we recruited the reviewers was fair and open for everyone. We recruited them chronologically in the order they reached out to us⌠and we wanted to keep things neutral and fair even within our squads.
Reading your comment is like all my work within the FDD for the past three-six months was null and I canât be happy about that⌠Why are stewards not even looking at what we are building and just âhatingâ on us? Is that fair for the contributors here? Is that fair towards me? Who worked 60+ hours a week and 80+ during the round to make sure the grant creators, our donors and our matching funds are protected?(4 real, you can look in our Discord during the round and see whatâs up). Associating the FDD with grant reviews nullifies all the hard work done by my peers.
If you really care about Gitcoin DAO, the grants program and our community please try to understand what major issues we face âŚwe have entire organizations trying to game the system, we have hundreds of people that are creating fake grantsâŚall while running the round, ensuring sybil protection and trying to solve âunsolvedâ research problemsâŚ
Those people are not reviewing grants, I am the driver of Round Management, only my squad handles grant reviewing and as I stated above that costs 10-20k MAX per round. This round we actually want to reduce that number with 50%, which is not fair for our contributors, but we need to reach a balance that satisfies the DAO.
Thatâs your truth, but is it the truth?
We can have a call anytime (takes 10 minutes) and I can explain and walk you though the whole process of grant reviewing and why we opted for this system which works amazingly btw
Iâm sure that @DisruptionJoe @omnianalytics @Sirlupinwatson @David_Dyor and @vogue20033 can explain more about our collective efforts.
PS. I know and I completely agree what the DAO has some BIG issue. Parasitic behaviors are the threat to any organisation⌠The FDD is not the biggest spender and we work on one of the most complicated and complex set of problems. I donât believe that by cutting our budget we will do the DAO a favor If people vote for Option 3 which is less than 400k they will see that we could and probably will continue to save funds(from our donors and matching funds) that are more than that number. Have a good day ser 