Hey @nategosselin and @kevin.olsen thank you for the response.
I think the “Estimated lifetime funding received” and a visible warning nearby that says: “this number should not be used for accounting purposes” would really help. Appreciate this.
For the number rounding I prefer the solution I proposed.
- It should not be hard to implement
- And should convey to everyone that grants like rotki’s are among the top-funded by gitcoin grants without providing a number that is not accurate.
The idea to round to nearest thousand may be okay for grants that are in the tens of thousands raised, but for us since the error itself was in the tens of thousands, this won’t make any difference.
I would really prefer it if you could implement [Proposal] Remove Lifetime funding received from gitcoin grant page - #9 by lefterisjp or at least explain why this is not possible. As this solution (which is actually what @tjayrush proposed) should check all boxes.
But still, if not that … maybe then could you do what you suggest with the following addition: If the grant raised more than $100k according to your data, then start rounding at the nearest 25k? Rounding down (since the data you have seems to push the number up).
Also let’s find a way to take into account:
- Spending of a grant per quarter
- Months/quarters/years the grant/project is active.
Without (1) and (2) any amount is not really put in perspective. A grant with 5 devs has more expenses than a grant with 1 dev which has more expenses that a guy writing some blogposts. Also there is a huge difference if the expenses have been only in the last month versus the last 3 years!!!
I am not saying to do the above in grants 1.0. But let’s get it right in 2.0.