SIP-18 (funding SANDDAO) sparked a HUGE debate, and one thing came out loud and clear was the support for a consolidated SIP that rewards/funds the many content creators across the Sandbox.
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@DAO (The Intern) mentioned ApeCoin DAO’s ThankApe, which is a dApp that rewards contributors for achieve certain milestones that benefit the ApeCoin DAO community (such as " Host an X/Twitter space for your ApeChain NFT or Memecoin community and achieve 200 listens")
Between them they received over 15 post likes, including my own.
First and foremost, I invite @SirAlokin & @KamiSawZe up here as coauthors (sorry @DAO you’re a Delegate so I can’t invite you !) and I credit them with a mixture of this idea and I completely agree with Kami that the rules need to be clear.
I propose we earmark a certain amount of $SAND from the upcoming budget SIP at the end of January from TSB Game Company yearly SAND donation
I propose we create a Sand Chest out of that earmarked amount
I propose that we create a transparent system that distributes rewards to TSB content creators. Perhaps we use an objective metric like https://socialblade.com/ to rank all content creators and then distribute % to each of the top X every month? However we do it, it needs to be reviewable/auditable by the community.
Content creators will be defined as anyone who publishes live or recorded content to the internet, some examples being Twitch livestream, YouTube VODs, Tiktok shorts, X/Twitter spaces.
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TSB’s main channel features some content creators and that get boosted views when they wouldn’t have ordinarily received them…it that an unfair competitive advantage?
Rank ordering by total views or live views incentivizes content creators to focus on this to an excessive degree that becomes counterproductive…how do we balance openly audited metrics with effective metrics?
I really like the idea. We have Builders challenges for builders and Events for players. it would make sense from marketing stand of point to have a prize pool of some sort for content creators!
We could leverage the KOL Ambassador role’s criteria for compensation on this one as a starting point.
This is the main question! I know there are a lot of bots out there, people will use them once they find out there will be an incentive. Not sure but if :
If the metrics are based on frequency and quality of posts rather than viewership, then it wouldn’t be fair to the big creators.
If the metrics are based on viewership, then botting will start and the small creators will be affected.
This formula emphasizes quality over quantity, ensuring valuable contributions are prioritized.
It’s just an idea, but I believe it could work. Each streamer should fill out a registration form, including their streaming address, to allow proper evaluation.
Excellent. I love it @SirAlokin. Building on that…what if we separate the content creators into categories: streamers, long-form videos, short-form videos? That way, content creator metrics are being applied relatively similar
And then each category gets your formula applied to them
I like this idea, would still need work as such an idea will have to be a part of the SIP!
I foresee an issue with tabulating the scores. Who do you think should be tasked with this? Obviously, we will need to budget for it. but in general, would this be ran by the TSB or the DAO! - questions for all I guess
If we fund a position to do this, we should make it the DAO. The way the Ambassador program transitioned to DAO-funded/TSB Company managed made me feel all weird.
@DrMetaverso & @SirAlokin , don’t forget to vote for this SIP idea please! I think this is how the DAO Admin Team measures if it’s a worthy invitation to submitting a SIP.
I was also thinking. I think we should do it like ThankApe.com
Instead of making it a contest between streamers, which incentivizes rivalry, competitive advantages…maybe we allocate X amount of SAND and make put quests out there for content creators to do, such as:
Earn X views on a YouTube video
Earn X likes on a Tweet
And we dApp it to where people connect their social media account through oauth, it checks the account for the milestone, then pays it out to a connected wallet.
People can claim it once per month? And to keep it from getting exploited, whatever tweet is checked it will count it against the account.
I really like this idea. This will make everyone work together instead of making it a contest. I just checked the website for the first time, I like it, something like it will definitely work for us.
Building and maintaining such a website might be pricy though!
!) and I credit them with a mixture of this idea and I completely agree with Kami that the rules need to be clear.
