I would say that every single project in the DHF makes sense to many people in many ways. The question im posing is if the developers receiving funds are putting in work that would justify the funding they are asking.
Maybe the devs on the project that makes most sense to everybody are putting in 1/3 of the commits that should be expected of them.
Someone needs to vet that imo. That someone needs to be of technical nature.
So we either pay them less or they work harder if any of that is the case.
The post itself isnt really looking for opinions about projects. Im trying to see if the devs themselves are putting in the work that would be expected of developers for the pay they receive.
Having someone vet would be good but they would most likely want DHF funding as well and you'd be expecting and trusting this one person to be honest and not taking bribes on the backend. It also starts to really centralize things when you start doing that.
It honestly comes down to those top 50 or 100 people that hold the most hive that vote for these projects. That's about all the push you need to get these projects approved right now. Who's holding them accountable or should they even be held accountable? Are they doing proper vetting? and does it matter since they hold so much hive themselves they have either invested or committed enough to the blockchain already that everyone feels it's warranted.
I'm still going to go back to the DHF shouldn't be constantly tapped into for these 3rd party projects and instead be more of an incubator type platform where the funds get returned to the DHF over time and the application has got to come up with a way to generate revenue themselves which if they really believed in web3 and decentralization that those funds would also go back to their users and creators that use their application.
However a constant tap for core development should be a thing but those core developers I'm going to say need to be a little more vocal about what they are doing. Almost need a project manager with a decentralized voting system for what the community wants the core devs to work on next such as smart contracts.
Hopefully not. I dont think someone would be so nuts to take actual bribes on that. If they would I would be extremely disappointed in this community knowing that someone like that lives among us.
id say that anyone with the knowhow could do it. why would they need to be top 50-100? Any and all of us can raise questions.
Id definitely be up for that.
Unfortunately, when money (especially a lot of money) enters the equation, all bets are off. Even good men are corrupted by money. It's not greed, it's survival. Need to pay for my kids school, wife has cancer and have to pay for healthcare, car is breaking down and can't afford to have it fixed by it is necessary, etc. Corruption has a way of working its way into even the purest hearts.