Polkadot Anti-scam Team Bounty Top-up
Beneficiary:Dear Community,
This referendum aims to top up the Anti-Scam Bounty, whose aim is to protect the community from scams by tracking/pruning scam activities, supporting scam victims, and promoting user safety via educational initiatives. The anti-scam bounty has been running for two years now and has helped fund multiple anti-scam tasks, whose details can be found here
This top-up will enable us to continue with our anti-scam efforts as well as expand the initiative to protect the Polkadot community from as many areas of scam as possible.
Details of this proposal, including what we have achieved so far, our future goals, and an estimated break-down of the requested top-up, can be found in the proposal document
Report of spends since the last top-up can be found here
Thank you.
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This seems to be the top-up for the anti-scam bounty (Bounty 11). We would mainly like to know more details about the proposed budget as some of the items seem quite elevated. Specially for the education materials, 25k in education materials, 50k for expansion of educational campaigns. It says that it will be mostly on youtube, Polkaverse and some other sites (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PTJEYtQeUe4XTg0zioX13gISuZ78bMQkMEDORf899RA/edit). How is this going to be amplified so that the expenditure is justified by reaching enough people that this material is meant for. We have already seen tons of projects produce material never to be watched by anyone.
Acknowledging the hard work and thoughtful reporting that has gone into our anti-scam measures, it's clear that our current strategy isn't delivering the expected results, with an average viewership of only 50. This suggests a need to reconsider our approach. While the proposal for additional funding is well-intentioned, it appears to be unnecessarily large, especially considering that a significant portion of the existing budget remains unused. Instead, we should direct our efforts towards more scalable and cost-effective solutions, such as automation and filtering, to ensure our anti-scam initiatives are both impactful and sustainable.
This seems to be the top-up for the anti-scam bounty (Bounty 11). We would mainly like to know more details about the proposed budget as some of the items seem quite elevated. Specially for the education materials, 25k in education materials, 50k for expansion of educational campaigns. It says that it will be mostly on youtube, Polkaverse and some other sites (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PTJEYtQeUe4XTg0zioX13gISuZ78bMQkMEDORf899RA/edit). How is this going to be amplified so that the expenditure is justified by reaching enough people that this material is meant for. We have already seen tons of projects produce material never to be watched by anyone.
Acknowledging the hard work and thoughtful reporting that has gone into our anti-scam measures, it's clear that our current strategy isn't delivering the expected results, with an average viewership of only 50. This suggests a need to reconsider our approach. While the proposal for additional funding is well-intentioned, it appears to be unnecessarily large, especially considering that a significant portion of the existing budget remains unused. Instead, we should direct our efforts towards more scalable and cost-effective solutions, such as automation and filtering, to ensure our anti-scam initiatives are both impactful and sustainable.