Polkadot Ambassador Program
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Whale Ambassador Program
This “program” oppose several individuals aka Head Ambassadors supported by DOT whales to all ex-Polkadot Ambassadors. This “program” is not about community, onboarding new talented professionals, not about sustainable on-chain institutions, it’s all about serving whales and promote their narratives.
It was a cool 5-year journey for me as a Polkadot Head Ambassador, which seems to be coming to an end. I was great to work with all the true head ambassadors these years. We had great achievements, and I am proud of them all. I have decided to stay away from this new Whale Ambassador Program.
Here are the reasons:
- All those who agreed to play this rules betrays hundreds of true ex-Polkadot Ambassadors and their long term contributions and sincere volunteering.
- These new rules are totally unfair and only implementing grift and nepotism on-chain.
- This program and the way it operates probably would not be long term sustainable. It will fail soon, or be transformed to something completely different.
- $10k rewards per month (its a salary not what initially planed. Initial plan was the vision of “Not Tech” Fellowship - Ambassador Collective - DAO - idea to support and develop the longterm ambassador community. Not to come for couple month to make fake BuSiNeSs DeVelopMent or serve the whales, but build the sustainable on-chain institutions.
- This “Program” not about the support regional communities and its leaders, not support local real adoption and “small” steps and events, explanation of Web3 and Polkadot hard concepts. It establish some abstract Business Development goals, which are only part of needed activities.
- Looks like the main aim of this program to bribe several opinion leaders with big salary and destroy oppose voices.
- Too much greed around, too many dramas and dog fights because of this “salary”.
- No rewards for ex-senior ambassadors or ex-ambassadors (Rewards were planned and announced initially, which demotivated hundreds of ex-ambassadors who volunteered for years, especially compared to the $10,000 monthly salary of 20 “lucky” whale friends.)
- “Candidates” one-by-one roastings by whales and their corrupted friends (the initial list of HA was planned and approved, and then thrown into the garbage.)
- 5k DOT deposit is absurd, an additional lever for corrupted whales to influence community.
- Discarding of previous contributions and experience of managing the Ambassador Program.
- Total ignoring of the hundreds ex-ambassadors onboarded by each ex-Head Ambassador. This is our community, our friends and we going to oppose this iniquity.
It’s all unfair to the community and a betrayal of trust from a project that I’ve been part of for years. I recommend staying away from this “Program” .