Hey guys I just want to post some feedback/criticism, as I have a bitter taste in my mouth about this recent “retro governance participation rewards” round:
I was denied retrofunding in the “active delegate in the token house category” and as a “delegate that participated in reflection period”. I was a top 100 delegate this entire season 6 as shown on my delegate page, and on every vote. I take pride in Optimism Governance, and have been on Optimism since day 1 (Thanks to Synthetix).
To my surprise I discovered I was not included for these two categories for retrofunding (I missed out on 6k OP).
After seasons 6 end I moved some OP tokens to a new undelegated wallet, and during this time period Optimism took the ONLY snapshot of the top 100 delegates for season 6. I reached out to Optimism, and to my surprise they said their snapshot was taken at the end of the season, and because I was unlucky and moved some OP tokens my Top 100 delegate status was void, and they would not change when the snapshot was taken.
“Unfortunately we are not able to retroactively change the definition of who/when the snapshot is taken which I hope you can understand.”
My feedback here is what is the point of voting as a top 100 delegate if the snapshot is done at the end of the season, and not during each vote? This opens up the governance voting to gamification, and the point of the retrofunding is to reward top 100 delegates who took time out of their day to read and vote on every proposal which according to me did not happen here.
My suggestion to Optimism is this: Taking a snapshot once a day (random time) and do weighted average (Maker does this), or do a snapshot at end of each vote, and average those votes at the end. This way we have accountable for voters throughout the entire season, and NOT taking a single snapshot at the end of the season.
