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• Implementation Update | AIP-454: The BANANA Bill: Apes Gotta Eat by SmartAPE - Accepted AIP Author
  Posted on: Sept. 30, 2024, 2:43 p.m.
  Content: + 21 D, 2 hrs, 19 mins since my post went up. AIP- 454 : The BANANA Bill: Apes Gotta Eat Reporting: The Advisory Committee charter will be made public, and each quarter there will be a transparency report disclosing the total amount allocated that quarter, and outlining which commercial agreements have been made (but not the specific terms of each agreement), subject to any duties of confidentiality negotiated with the counterparty in the commercial contract. The Advisory Committee will be required to provide a transparency report on their accomplishments towards the DAO on a quarterly basis. DATE ACTIVITY DISPOSITION June 13 , 2024 Banana Bill AIP posted June 20 , 2024 Banana Bill Vote setup July 4 th, 2023 Banana Bill Vote passed Dec 31 st, 2024 Banana Bill Q 4 / 24 Report due pending Mar 31 st, 2025 Banana Bill Q 1 / 25 Report due pending June 30 th, 2025 Banana Bill Q 2 / 25 Report due pending Sept 30 th, 2025 Banana Bill Q 3 / 25 Report due pending Dec 31 st, 2025 Banana Bill Q 4 / 25 Report due pending Mar 31 st, 2025 Banana Bill Q 1 / 26 Report due pending June 30 th, 2026 Banana Bill Q 2 / 26 Report due pending Sept 30 th, 2026 Banana Bill Q 3 / 26 Report due pending Dec 31 st, 2026 Banana Bill Q 4 / 26 Report due pending Sept 29 , 2024 Several reasons why I am 99 % certain that ApeChain is destined to fail to reach its potential.
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• No more dumb sh__t. by SmartAPE - Accepted AIP Author
  Posted on: Sept. 30, 2024, 1:07 p.m.
  Content: popil: In proposing to close all WGs, the root problems were not addressed. That’s not now that usually works. If there were “root problems”, they should have been addressed long before now. popil: Clearly, these issues could have been addressed more effectively and maturely. You mean closing working groups in order to go a more efficient route isn’t an effective and mature action? Please explain why you have this view. popil: but I also feel that the value behind the past contributions and the large number of tasks that have been executed over the past half year have been completely overlooked, misunderstood, and abandoned. None of that is actually true. I have thus far failed to see any evidence whereby the above claim has been made - other than in requests for information and clarity as they pertain to those activities. What’s true is that, like some others, you failed to respond to queries about what activities you actually engaged in. You wrote a long post about all of them, while claiming to have completed all KPIs, yet, there doesn’t exist any such metrics showing this. While some stewards actually never even showed up, nobody engaged in these discussions is saying that the stewards didn’t do “something”. That’s not the issue here. The issue is that did stewards perform in the role for which they were paid, and is the on-going funding of the working groups sustainable in its current form? e.g. if I am hired as an accountant, just because I am helping to take out the garbage doesn’t mean that I have performed in my role as an accountant. That is to say, sure, some of you did in fact engage in some activities, but how do those activities (e.g. this is your explanation of same) relate to the roles that you were hired for? That’s all there is to this. It’s about performance evaluation and how the DAO has benefited from the funds that it has disbursed, and to find justification for doing so. Yes, this is a foreign concept to people who have no clue what accountability is, and so, any inference of being questioned about roles and procedures ends up being regarded as a personal affront. It shouldn’t be that way. popil: Additionally, I will no longer respond to any negative or untrue matters. Nobody is asking you to do that. However, if someone says that you and/or a working group haven’t performed as expected, your job - as someone being paid by the DAo (that’s us btw) to do it - is to explain how that notion is incorrect, and to provide clarity and understanding. Regarding it as being “negative” or “untrue”, while refusing to respond with the aforementioned clarity, is precisely how we got to this moment in time. popil: Our entire MarComms team had already arranged a comprehensive promotion plan two months ago, including filming and organizing over four events. I am proud to share that these efforts were made possible by the budget we saved from the first round, allowing us to allocate enough funds to save even more resources for the DAO. We have also continuously collaborated with Thank Ape to help creators push forward with BBAC. While that’s nice and all, the DAO doesn’t need a funded working group to do any of that. The same activities can be funded by the DAO via individuals that it finds value in, trusts to do the job, and who are capable of performing these activities - and with transparency and accountability. To be clear, though anything related to accountability and transparency tends to come with baggage that ends up making it personal, this proposal is clear as to why the working groups should - and hopefully will be - closed. Yes - of course I realize that there are good people in the DAO, but the fact is that the world is full of well-intentioned and good people who were once part of failed companies and communities. This is CapTrippy in his own words which echo mine in several places: Y’all know I love apecoin DAO and the people working in it. Change is hard but often times necessary. I will write a thread on AIP- 466 before it finishes vote but know I asked to be on it to help push the DAO forward in a positive way. Before I ran for SC, one of the points I ran on for my platform was getting rid of vote for hire, and set up where the DAO hires and fires based on need. While I’m no longer on SC, I continue to seek what I set out to accomplish. This is the next step. Know that anything said on this is the person’s opinion that says it or posts it. Nobody speaks for me, but me. Onwards and upwards. I will say this again, it is of no consequence to me whether or not this proposal passes. I neither gain nor lose anything either way. At the end of the day, it is up to the DAO to make its voice heard at vote. And so, anyone voting against this proposal sends a clear message that they are OK with the status quo and that nothing needs to change.
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• Regarding the Status of Returned Proposals by SmartAPE - Accepted AIP Author
  Posted on: Sept. 28, 2024, 4:54 p.m.
  Content: bigbull: This raises the question of whether the Foundation Directors—whose identities have not been disclosed—have bypassed the established DAO process. This action may have been taken at their discretion or potentially with guidance from the Advisory Board. Wait! So, are you suggesting that the Ape Foundation isn’t just WebSlingers + Special Council and that there was in fact a cabal (lol) behind-the-scenes? I would like clarity on this point please. You can’t throw stuff like this out there without raising a few eyebrows - mine included.
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• Regarding the Status of Returned Proposals by SmartAPE - Accepted AIP Author
  Posted on: Sept. 28, 2024, 4:51 p.m.
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• An open discussion on ways to improve the DAO - An open call to anyone interested in helping. by SmartAPE - Accepted AIP Author
  Posted on: Sept. 28, 2024, 10:12 a.m.
  Content: CraniumCalvin: I feel that everyone in this discussion are on the same page, It would be good to get a consensus on who wants to get together and try and put together a plan for a path forward. Welcome to the struggle.
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• Ape Gaming Alliance (AGA) by SmartAPE - Accepted AIP Author
  Posted on: Sept. 28, 2024, 8:53 a.m.
  Content: PhilWatkins: As for my personal contributions to the DAO within the position thus far, this consists of multiple AIP supports, onboarding Apechain launch partners and various event contributions. That’s the opposite of what most of us have heard. So, in the name of transparency and accountability, I invite you to document these efforts. PhilWatkins: This AIP could have been placed within the MWG but it would of been hindered by present constraints which your self are indeed trying to change. lol The irony isn’t lost on me. lol PhilWatkins: Please expect a full transparency report shortly from the MWG. You are probably not across everything that occurs globally. I look forward to reading it.
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• Ape Gaming Alliance (AGA) by SmartAPE - Accepted AIP Author
  Posted on: Sept. 28, 2024, 8:16 a.m.
  Content: Right. So we elected people into MwG roles. With the exception of one, they did nothing for the DAO. Like - nothing at all. A proposal goes up to kill that very same working group. Less than a week later a proposal from one of these very same people goes up, subsequently supported by each other - asking the DAO for $ 235 K.
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• An open discussion on ways to improve the DAO - An open call to anyone interested in helping. by SmartAPE - Accepted AIP Author
  Posted on: Sept. 28, 2024, 8:09 a.m.
  Content: CraniumCalvin: I agree that these areas need massive reform, and have contributed to a lot of the problems we have today. But, I would also say that one reason they have so much power is because apathy is so high. Like most things in life, the majority have power, they are usually just too downtrodden to unite and utilise it in a meaningful way. I agree that we need a proposal, and that is exactly where I hope this will lead. But! A proposal with no backing from the wider community is pointless. It is likely why no meaningful change has ever happened, and it’s exactly why I haven’t put one together so far. Revolution takes numbers, and alignment from the majority. CraniumCalvin: I do not doubt you can bring a lot to the table, but IMO this requires not only a team effort, but a level of diplomacy to find compromise with all parties involved. If we can create a proposal, or set of proposals that provide a strong argument for positive change within the DAO. Which is also mutually beneficial for all, then I think we stand a chance. Indeed. And obviously it will take a team to do something this. But all teams still need a lead. Hence the “I” language. As you aptly mentioned in your rather eloquent post, the core of the issues in the DAO is that though the minority have a massive amount of power, they have chosen not to wield it. And there are many reasons for why that is. And to those who are resistant to change, I say: “I’m sorry, I know you mean well. You just didn’t think it through. You want to protect the DAO but you don’t want it to change. How is the DAO saved if it’s not allowed to… evolve? With the same people? These puppets. There’s only one path to change. The extinction of the old ways.”
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  • CraniumCalvin: SmartAPE: As you aptly mentioned in your rather eloquent post, the core of the issues in the DAO is that though the minority have a massive amount of power, they have chosen not to wield it. And there are many reasons for why that is. You are bang on, and as I said in my reply to @adventurousape, we first need to wake up the masses. Without them we wont succeed. I feel that everyone in this discussion are on the same page, It would be good to get a consensus on who wants to get together and try and put together a plan for a path forward.
• An open discussion on ways to improve the DAO - An open call to anyone interested in helping. by SmartAPE - Accepted AIP Author
  Posted on: Sept. 27, 2024, 9:30 p.m.
  Content: Here’s the thing. Unless and until we dissolve the Special Council, Working Groups, and while we’re on a roll, replace WebSlinger - and start from scratch with new processes, guidelines, people etc. nothing in the DAO will change. Nothing. And in case anyone was actually dreaming about this, let me be clear, nothing we opine on here will come to pass without a proposal. And those proposals are subject to the whims of the whale wallets who elected all these people in the first place. I will say this again, I’m literally the best and most qualified person to help fix this mess. But I can’t do it without either someone writing up a proposal or the Ape Foundation engages me to do it. The end result will be basically what happens in the corporate world because there will be a complete plan for how it would be done.
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• No more dumb sh__t. by SmartAPE - Accepted AIP Author
  Posted on: Sept. 27, 2024, 4:22 p.m.
  Content: AllCityBAYC: And I’d be remiss not to add that the compensation for this position was set to decrease on October 1 st from $ 7 , 000 USD per month down to $ 5 , 000 USD per month. I would like an explanation as to why the compensation was set to decrease, how that decision was made - by whom - and when.
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  • Evil: ummm Sect role comes under GWG only, tho Bojangle didnt do a very good job and he will likely get the " Product Manager " position with $5,000 as hinted by few comments across the forums which I’ve seen. So yeh they have the right to decrease the payment and its better than making an AIP just to decrease 2k from a role that wont even exist after tomorrow.