As stated, I haven’t tried to hide the conflict of interest or voting pattern in any way. I fundamentally disagree with the self-deal clause as it’s written. For one, the language is not binding:
Badgeholders should not vote for organizations
Clearly “the foundation” is the arbiter though, so they can have decided how they will interpret it. Wasn’t this supposed to be decentralized? And aren’t I supposed to be fully suspended only after “sustained or repeated violations”? Seems like they managed to omit a vote on stripping me during the last session. Fair enough.
Beyond arguing language semantics, there needs to be reasonable caps on what constitutes being associated with an organization for income purposes (the SEC says 10% ownership is an insider.)
My split percentage is 0.88%. I don’t think under any traditional framework I would be considered an insider. But for arguments sake, what if my split was 0.01%? Does this still constitute self-deal? What if I am a rainbow user with XXX points and I voted for Rainbow kit?
As more projections and more badgeholders join rpgf, this needs to be made clearer.
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Ultimately it’s unfortunate they feel the need to remove me instead of having a positive engagement about how to improve RetroPGF.