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RUB Article Contests and Contest Structure #974

Open allancto opened 6 years ago

allancto commented 6 years ago

Benefit to RChain

  1. Awareness. Active participation (by members and also non-members) drives awareness.

  2. Talent. Recruit new members based on actual contribution.

  3. Opportunity. Existing members may find contests a relatively inviting way to make a contribution.

  4. Defined cost. Contest budgets are set in advance, so total cost is known. Over time budgets may be modified depending on the success of the Contests and the number of submissions received.

Description

We will create a structure that may be used for contests for original articles related to RChain. The primary requirement is a set of rules for contests (see discussion below). Depending on what rules are decided, some kind of implementation structure will need to be put in place, for instance judges, vote counting, or whatever system is chosen.

Anyone is welcome to submit articles and be eligible for prizes, but since we envision that the prizes will be paid in rhoc by the Cooperative, any contest winner who is not a member would have to join and go through the kyc process in order to collect their prize. Total prizes awarded should have some relationship to the quantity and quality of the articles submitted. For a contest with 10 submissions we might expect a first prize of rhoc equivalent of ~$1500, second prize $750, third prize $375 (average $250 per article). For a contest with 20 submissions we might expect a first prize rhoc equivalent of ~$2000, second prize $1000, third prize $500 (average $170 per article). Plus expenses for editorial support when required, and judging.

As a sample contest topic see “How RChain Changed My Life” #975. Other potential contests might include “dApps I'd Like to See”, expository articles about RChain projects, and “Best Article of the Month”.

Rules

Outline of rules, to be defined and agreed on

Budget and Objective

Estimated Budget of Task: $[4000? rules + monitoring/ judging/ promotion/ tracking] Note: if this turns out to be very popular we can consider two contests running simultaneously, or a new issue for a new contest (for instance “How RChain Changed My Life” and best article overall) Estimated Timeline Required to Complete the Task: [2-4 weeks to first contest launched] How will we measure completion? [rules complete, first contest launched]

Team: Help_Wanted Colab (channel #publication)

Legal

Task Submitter shall not submit Tasks that will involve RHOC being transacted in any manner that (i) jeopardizes RHOC’s status as a software access token or other relevant and applicable description of the RHOC as an “asset”—not a security— or (2) violates, in any manner, applicable U.S. Securities laws.

ysgjay commented 6 years ago

Have we decided if the RUB should be funded by the co-op as it's an "unofficial" blog? Is there a sponsor of this blog?

ddayan commented 6 years ago

The suggested budget needs a sponsor.

Viraculous commented 6 years ago

@allancto The idea of article contest is quite a good way to foster engagement and thought expression but Why not promote the official blog? I have always asked where our marketing efforts should be directed towards, official or unofficial blog?

allancto commented 6 years ago

Thanks @ddayan for your correct observation that this issue lacks and requires sponsorship to be funded. Are you interested and able to help find sponsorship for it?

@ysgjay we have not yet decided as a community that RUB should be funded by the co-op and without support it will not. I know you've opposed the RUB, but you are smart, creative, open minded and connected in the community. Perhaps you also might poke around within the community and see if you might help us find sponsorship? On the one hand this might give you additional cause to see funding the RUB as inappropriate, on the other hand you might find evidence on the other side, that it could be worthy of support.

@Viraculous you've asked where our efforts should be directed toward official or unofficial blog, my answer is "both". Both serve an important function. As a writer and contributor yourself you may choose to publish in one or the other or both.

allancto commented 6 years ago

The unofficial/ official question above deserves a detailed answer. It also relates to another issue which I have been working on for a long time and hope to post in the next day or two. @dckc provided a good one sentence summary today in Colab’s #publication channel:

I still don't get all the "unofficial RChain" this and that. Why not use the official channels or go somewhere with an existing audience? Why compete with both?

At a superficial level my answer is that these two media serve slightly different functions, for instance the standards for the official blog are higher than the unofficial one because it is the reference to official RChain statements and policy. Yes, it would be possible to make the official blog incorporate "op-ed" or "community contributed does not represent RChain official policy" sections. Yes it would be possible to make colab #publications authors and editors all RChain Official Blog authors and editors. Yes it would be possible to centralize all RChain information and functionality to reduce overlap and appear to increase efficiency. But why would we? Planned economies work. Free economies work better. Monopoly works. Competition works better.

I personally love the Official blog, which is doing an OUTSTANDING job. The articles are well written, topics well chosen, information accurate. It should serve as a model for anyone interested in the Unofficial blog. And that's EXACTLY why we should support two collaborative/competitive blogs, both executed with quality on the level of the Official blog. The deeper answer is that blogs, journalism, media are not "just" promotion, they are intensely important to the success of RChain. These two media are worthy of support because both support RChain: our vision, our recruitment of talent, our internal discussions, our need to communicate publicly who we are and to receive public comment. The value of these media to RChain cannot be overstated.

For some additional context I plan to introduce in the next couple of days another issue I've been working on for some time. In that issue I will ask you as members familiar with the bounty system for feedback on the wording of a member proposal I plan to submit requesting broad consensus and explicit increase in support for not one, but "two" bounty systems with similar goals and nuanced difference. Each should have stable and explicit financial support (a least for a 1 year period) at a funding level higher than our current bounty system has. Why? The bounty contributors system is imo one of the most important programs to the future of our cooperative and the RChain ecosystem. Why two distinct programs? For the same reason. Two collaborative/competitive programs are prudent because our bounty contributors program are, as both the official and unofficial blog are, THAT IMPORTANT to our Cooperative.

dckc commented 6 years ago

@ddayan I wonder if the Discussion label is appropriate here. This looks like a relatively complete Task Identification Proposal, to me. It looks to me like the TAC owes an answer within 5 days.

@allancto This seems to overlap with responsibilities of Derek Beres, Director of Content. I recommend you discuss the benefit to RChain with him.

allancto commented 6 years ago

@dckc thanks for your observation. I've reached out to Derek on discord and will discuss with him as soon as possible.

ddayan commented 6 years ago

@dckc I'm labelling discussion on all unsponsored issues so people know that it's not clear if their contribution will get rewarded at this point. I guess a sponsored/unsponsored label would be better but I'm not sure where these new labels need to be announced so people(on GitHub & the voting system) understand their meanings.

allancto commented 6 years ago

@plantether are you able to endorse these contests? I'd be happy to address any questions you may have (i've also reached out to Derek but haven't yet heard back).

@kdvalentine perhaps you may weigh in on the effectiveness of content contests for creating engagement with a fixed budget. The Reflective Deal Days show just how awesome these can be. For those of you who haven't watched the videos, the first RVP deal day brought encouragement to the community, interchange of information, new contributors. And serendipity: SmartTix presented but did not win, and got picked up by Pithia! Some of our RUB activity has already gotten picked up in the Official blog. And I for one am sure the increasing and high quality activity in Official will encourage people to also write in RUB.

dckc commented 6 years ago

@ddayan , everything is unsponsored by default; sponsored items should get a rebooted label. Feel free to make comments to that effect, but please don't abuse the Discussion label. A complete Task Identification Form with no sponsorship should get closed as wontfix within 5 days (give or take). Issues with the Discussion label are excluded from the Overdue list, so they're less likely to get closed in a timely fashion.

ddayan commented 6 years ago

Ok thanks for clearing things up On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 at 18:47, Dan Connolly notifications@github.com wrote:

@ddayan https://github.com/ddayan , everything is unsponsored by default; sponsored items should get a rebooted label. Feel free to make comments to that effect, but please don't abuse the Discussion label. A complete Task Identification Form with no sponsorship should get closed as wontfix within 5 days (give or take). Issues with the Discussion label are excluded from the Overdue list, so they're less likely to get closed in a timely fashion.

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plantether commented 6 years ago

@allancto I think it's great to have other blogs about RChain, but it's not in our budget to sponsor them.