I am not sure if you know or not but we had Utopian, where you used to get up votes for promoting open source projects. Say for example you have promoted HIVE in social media and posted a report. You will get an up vote similar or more to that amount which you have invested. In that way you dont have to seek the fund, but you get more than what you have invested.
Now think if each one of us do a campaign and get an upvote more than how much we have invested then why not do it rather than wait for proposal to get funded. My thoughts.
Interesting. I don't know Utopian. Good idea.
Talk about results that can't be measured though. Like getting an article about Hive on CoinDesk (or claiming too). Hence the manual community-driven process is important, isn't it?
I am more inclined towards promoting Social Media like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc where you can actually measure it through the impressions and link clicks. The budget should be less like $10-$20, so that you can get profit too after the upvotes.
Again, it will be restricted to only social platforms. Also, how do you deal with spam? I hope Utopian had a way around that?
Yes for a time being it was restricted to only social platforms. For the spam component, Utopian had moderators who used to go through the report submitted and then based on the findings that the report is correct, they used to get the upvotes.