Their direct VP may not impact it the way it did previously, but have you ever looked at the wallets of most of the top voters? A vast majority are partners of The Sandbox who owe all their SAND and LAND to that partnership and have had little to no interaction with the community, yet always seem to vote exactly how the Special Council wants them to vote. Always found that interesting. Almost like the Special Council holds the power that Iāve previously mentioned.
And now onto your reaction video. Hereās my reaction to it, it will be long given how much was covered in your reaction video:
You donāt fault them for not giving the information ahead of time with anything even close to specifics, but how late into the discussion and voting process was it that the information was finally given? How many votes had taken place before it was even known exactly what we were voting on?
āAmbassadors are not employees of TSB, they are contractors.ā Another word for Contractors is Contract Employees because The Sandbox DAO Ambassadors were turned into Contract Employees of The Sandbox DAO who would be hired and fired as needs arose and fell, per their own words. This alone completely changed what it meant to be an Ambassador. We were not employees in any way, contract, part time or full time, we were community members with an elevated title volunteering our time because of everything we had done and could do for The Sandbox and The Sandbox Community and received benefits for such.
āTo ensure they are compensated fairly.ā The interesting thing about this is how drastically lower the potential compensation for ambassadors was after the DAO took control of the Ambassador program. Iāve never given the numbers myself and never will because Iāve always been told not to under punishment of my NDA. I can say it definitely was never anything significant. We were here because we loved the project and had the benefit of potentially receiving something for our time and stress. I surely didnāt deal with the death threats and doxing threats I received because of the money, it was always about the passion for the project. Which was why were invited to be ambassadors in the first place, our passion for The Sandbox. So who determined what is fair? Definitely wasnāt the community since these numbers werenāt even published until the end of the vote nor were they allowed to know the prior numbers. The easiest way for me to know this was the sheer number of people proudly telling me they voted for it before anything was published because we would be compensated something since in their minds there was no compensation at all for ambassadors. So telling people that ambassadors would receive āfairā compensation when they knew the community thought we received nothing was a very interesting line given they knew the prior numbers.
āThe DAO will not be the active managers of The Sandbox Ambassador program.ā I donāt know how you read this as The DAO wonāt have ownership. This is a $1.5 Billion market cap project, not a mom and pop shop, the owners of operations of that size rarely, if ever, take an active management role in the day to day management of the lowest level employees, contracted or full time with benefits. The DAO provides the money, the money is the ownership. Ownership determines the management.
I can not say it enough, this new program is completely and totally different from what the previous Ambassador title meant. Even if itās the same active managers. The role is completely and totally different now under the new ownership.
As The Kachingaverze points out, āa contradiction.ā Yes. I heard lots of contradictions in this AMA that seemed to be more related to trying to tell the community what they felt the community wanted to hear to vote yes verse what the actual truth is.
And yes, you make the most obvious point as to why they say what they say in these AMAs. There is no back and forth. They say something as though it is the truth based on what they think the community wants to hear to vote the way they want us to vote. āSomething that seems offā should have made you question more.
āThere will absolutely never be pressure on our ambassadors to support a SIP that does not follow their beliefs.ā As they laid out in the AMA, the DAO never would pressure us for our support. The only pressure was to promote. Which is what the question was, promotion not support. And I directly asked the question myself and was told if we were asked to promote something then we would have to promote it but not support it, regardless of our personal belief that a lack of promotion could increase the chance of a SIP failing by not meeting quorum. Many of us opposed to SIPs collectively decided to not vote specifically for this reason. And now we would be forced to promote them. Because everything is about metrics, not the community.
The important thing to remember is what the metrics in the first SIPs outlined. It was all about visits to the DAO website and number of voters. Nothing about building up The Sandbox itself.
And they loved to drill down the ānot an employeeā idea. So the DAO Ambassadors money comes from the DAO, they have job requirements from the DAO, they are managed by the team the DAO says should manage them, but somehow they arenāt employed by the DAO? Not sure I understand this at all. Feels more like trying to play semantics to pressure the community to vote how you want them to vote.
The hiring. The firing. The job requirements for performance. The forced promotion of the DAO. The new ambassador program is completely and totally different from the old program and what it meant to be an Ambassador.
ā5-10 current ambassadors are active on a weekly basis.ā Hmmm. How many of those old ambassadors are still active as ambassadors now under the DAO ambassador program?
āIf we donāt reach a quorum.ā The real concern of theirs.
So basically if we donāt pass the Ambassador program as he wants then itās entirely on us to submit our own SIP for an ambassador program instead of working with us to create a new one or improving this one, especially given the community canāt even submit SIPs at that time? I find that interesting that you see that as a good thing. Seems more respectable to me to say he would work with the community and current ambassadors to improve the SIP.
But none of that mattered with this SIP because the VP came from The Sandbox to ensure it passed. No matter how much we united to not vote on specific SIPs, we never could have beat The Sandbox VP combined with their partners VPs. Another thing to look at is how heavily this SIP was promoted while most others were not promoted at all.
In the end though, this is not relevant to the Community Council. This is in the past and was the final straw that lead to many of the ambassadors to actually quit. But it does answer your question you posed.
And donāt think that this SIP is why Iām no longer active.
They absolutely should have created a brand new position and left the ambassador program alone in the sense of what it meant to be an ambassador, even if that meant stripping all of the funding and the DAO created a different position and title. I did what I did for a long time before the benefits and title simply because of the passion, the benefits and title never dictated my passion or activity.
Even if they do end up stripping my title, I will still come back to being active once the DAO becomes even remotely close to an actual DAO and the community has an actual voice and power. The way they handled the creation of this DAO and went against the community was the reason for my inactivity. If you look back, I stopped being active as soon as the DAO was announced and the first vote was forced. After that, the only activity you see from me was related to fighting for the community against the DAO. As is the case right now.
My passion lies with The Sandbox and The Sandbox Community. They are my SandFam. And I will fight for them. Unfortunately right now that means fighting the DAO since they are so insistent on not working with the community to give the community an actual voice and power.
And this idea of a Community Council may have come from the right place, but it absolutely is not what the community needs. We do not need to put in required free labor to provide reports to those who donāt have the passion to know what the community wants. We need and deserve a spot at the table.
And pretty encouraging to hear. Have they made any indication if they intend to invoice? (not asking you to ask them, just wondering if itās already been made known to you)