Idea: outstanding_contributions.md

[mochet]

Problem: for newer users and even old users, there is some mystery behind what actions can get rewarded with FM points.

• If we put out a list of easy actions in advance it may promote spam or low quality contributions.
• Showing complete FM reports would be tedious as not all activity in a report may be high quality and FM points (in my opinion) should be more about individual, high quality actions rather than all of the actions someone does in a 2 week period.

Proposed solution: Create a file within this repo called outstanding_contributions.md. Within the file would be a table (an example is shown below).

User	Link	Description	FM points awarded	Bonus
@alice	https://testnet.joystream.org/#/proposals/1032	Took a KPI and created a proposal to improve the KPI that was well worded and explained.	750	+1000
@bob	https://testnet.joystream.org/#/forum/threads/1	Created a forum thread about governance that resulted in a large number of responses	600	+1000

Rules/Notes:

• Contributions are added by JSG and the only contributions allowed are on-chain actions (proposals, forum posts/threads and potentially also videos). Most importantly links from Discord or Telegram shouldn't or should only very rarely be added to this list.
• Each contribution that JSG gives shows the score rewarded for that specific action, along with a brief description of why it was included in the list.
• By a user having their contribution/action included in this list, they are additionally rewarded with a set amount of bonus FM points--in the example I have used 1000 points--this could be adjusted. I have also just used arbitrary amounts of FM points in the example, so this has no bearing on what is actually rewarded.
• This avoids having to prebuild a list of tasks that users can do in advance (task list), and lets this list focus on things people have already done. I do not think it is easy to communicate to users about the kind of FM activity we want in this regard.
  • This allows us to really focus on what our highest quality FM members do that is particularly special, and rather than linking to their likely long/complex FM reports, this list would be a much simpler to read list of activity that "makes the cut"
  • This could also be used in conjunction with a task list, but this file/table would be its own distinct thing.
• This hopefully creates competition for users to see what is on this list already and go beyond what is there.
• At some point, it may be possible to allow inducted FMs to propose or vote on what on-chain actions are added to this list.

Additional consideration:

• Users will be rewarded in two ways already by this list--they get points for however their contribution is graded, and they get a bonus amount of points for being on the list. It may be worthwhile investigating whether paying a bonus amount of tokens also would make this even a stronger proposition.
• When a user's task/contribution is added to the list, it should be promoted in the Discord and ocassionally on Twitter, highlighting the basic merits of the contribution AND also the rewards associated with it. This would strongly help in raising awareness of the list and create a sense of competition in people wanting to get added to the list.

[mochet]

Perhaps instead of a table, this should rather be a json file, that way the data can be shown on the Joystream homepage and also in other parts of the platform.