I have completed voting on Cycle 7. Things were quite smooth this cycle, and hopefully it’ll be perfect next one with timely recommendations from the Tooling committee. I voted with committee recommendations, except for Overtime. I also abstained from Dope Wars and Safe.
We’re going through a quiet time in the industry right now, and the incentives aren’t having much of an effect in incentivizing user growth. On the bright side, this has also calmed my fears of too much growth with centralization concerns - for now. Nevertheless, even without growth, it’s still a useful mechanism for distributing OP to enthusiast users and decentralizing the token house.
Now that we are 7 cycles and over a quarter in, I’d request commitees to start considering the results of previous incentives in greater depth. E.g. we don’t want to be approving the same type of incentives and/or same type of protocols if they are proving to be ineffective.