Dash Watch has received ID verification documentation and conducted KYC for all the Trust Protector Candidates listed below in alphabetical order:
Andrew Kerdemelidis - DF: @Max Yoga - Discord: Drako#8046 Forum - Max Yoga Dash Central: lemonysnicket
Ashley Francis - DF: @AshFrancis -...
We have looked into the funding delay of the escrow provider DashingDude (proposal owner of Dash Africa) that was mentioned on Discord over the past few days by Ogunseye Oluwajuwon Michael and rotc regarding the proposal "Nigeria - Mass Adoption by Creating Utility - Phase 1" (Here...
Dash Watch no longer reports on Alt36. As per Ryan Taylor: "Alt36 has made clear repeatedly both directly and through DCG [Dash Core Group} that they don’t wish to report to the community through DW [Dash Watch] and continue reporting directly. DW didn’t exist at the time they were funded, &...
We issued a community concern report last month here https://dashwatch.org/files/1527973354010.pdf and sent out a notification on twitter. The executive summary of our report is listed below.
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Hi JoL, at this point in time we do not call any proposals scams or fails, we would need very explicit evidence that there was a scam. In our current system, we have Abandoned, Obstructed, In-Progress, Delayed and Completed as proposal statuses. We will be working on a stoplight system of...
Understood. We're always open to feedback and constructive criticism. We do however have to manage a balance between community members and proposal owners. Proposal owner participation is completely voluntary and encouraged at this point in time, so if we are too unforgiving with our asks then...
Very wise words. There's a lot more than meets the eye for keeping up to date with proposals progress and metrics. We are planning on releasing a video with our core team members to elaborate more on our work and so the community can meet the team on a more personal level.
We would need to flesh out the idea more. This is an idea that needs an entire proposal to itself as we imagine it would be contentious. Perhaps this is a proposal you can put in yourself?
We would be happy to assist in any way possible if that is what the Governance system wants. We'd just like to note that at this current point in time we are working within the bounds of what we can do.
Could you please elaborate on this? We can't force anything on proposal owners as we have a decentralized system. Furthermore, this sounds like it could be stepping into the the area of money transmission.
As outlined in our survey, we can reduce the budget but it would come with a reduced...
Hi demo, we already automate part of the process and are constantly looking for ways to improve automation. You take can a look at our latest survey questionnaire here: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/A8YCQ1/
However, it is not as simple as it may initially seem. The first being that proposal...
Thank you for the feedback jimbursch.
We agree that micromanaging and demanding detailed financial breakdowns of particularly what people are getting paid may well be counter productive and we are open to continuing to improve what and how we ask for. At the same time, we have noticed the...
Hi demo, that's a good suggestion! Our first iteration of this is to create accounts and dashboards for proposal owners and then we can look into building out a community user interface. We're definitely interested in the community giving us feedback and evaluating our work - there needs to be...
Hi demo, can you please clarify what you mean?
1. All the reports we write do appear on Dash Watch.
2. What do you mean by ratings and votes?
3. How do we decide "people the reader trusts"? Do you mean have a user database that can be filtered through?
Our goal at Dash Watch is to report...
Hi Macrochip, thanks for the response.
I think the first report from the proposal owner about the fraudulent activity was on March 31, 2018, found here: https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/dash-is-going-viral-in-venezuela-crossed-100-000-signups-need-your-support-urgent.28708/page-7#post-178808...
Dash Watch is a neutral and unbias reporting group that does not post any accusations until they are empirically proven. We have been notified in the past that there was potentially user "fraud" going on with the GetFreeDash proposal but there was no solid evidence of this. Dash Watch has to be...