Marketing Bounty Deep Dive

These are legitimate questions and I’ll answer for the lurkers because the answers make Kus look good. :grin:

But we’ve seen rat packs of agitators before, and this will be my last reply.

  • If OpenGov is fully funding all the operations (every single expense of your organisation is transferred to opengov directly or over MB) who owns the materials you produce?

What’s cool is that all our content is released under CC licenses as stated in past refs. All of our content since April 2022 can be downloaded here. You can also see how much work goes into every piece of content. There are several orgs in the eco who have a direct line to our content pipeline which is where you see a lot of the clippings from

  • Who owns the leads you are capturing with ads? Are you sharing those leads with other relevant marketing teams, parity or W3F?

We work closely with many outreach agencies in the eco. How can you own a lead? :sweat_smile:

  • If Kusamarian as a platfrom is fully funded by the OpenGov, shouldnt OpenGov be able to vote on your mandate on the platform? Or are you claiming full personal ownership due to the fact you started the platform?

We have full responsibility for maintaining the platforms. There’s some editorial choices for the Friday DOT News Pump but Kus primarily maintains platforms for other people to speak and direct.

  • Often on AAG you would ask projects to proove the amount of Transactions they produced in Polkadot - have you ever considered establishing data metrics for Kusamarian, which would essentially monitor inbound traffic and whether this traffic actually produces transactions?

Yes actually, and Polkadot People opens a new set of defined outcomes to help the eco achieve.

  • What happens with Kusamarian content, all existing materials (funded by opengov) if you decide to hop on another chain?

It is digital content under CC licence. You can do whatever you want with it with attribution.

  • As a reporter who claims independance, what did you do regarding Marketing Bounty reporting and asking them also the heavy questions about spending?

Kus is more accurately described as a series of stages. I’m more of a stage manager and a director of ecosystem talent. I’m happy to facilitate Marketing Bounty grilled on The Kus. But would you keyboard warriors have the courage to show your face and participate? :sweat_smile:

  • Do you think that as a reporter you are in potential conflict of interest since you are partially funded by Marketing Bounty, directly affecting your objectivity on researching Marketing Bounty spending?

No. If MB is wasteful it can be explored on AAG. Usually bounties get picked apart at top up time.

  • Do you think as a reporter and main host of AAG, it is not conflict of interest to also run your own DAO where you are personally engaging with DAO members on specific voting outcomes?

No. And the reporter moniker does not well describe the service I provide to The Kus & OpenGov. Probably more, like all funded media, a propagandist. In this case for the productive ecosystem agents who vote. Since I’m a DOT holder, I’m well aligned with them.

  • Can you list Kusamarian internal guidelines on objectivity and fair reporting?

As stated in past refs. You could do some research :sweat_smile:

  • And lastly, before Polkadot, what was your experience with reporting?

None. I worked as a director, presenter, and talent manager as I do now with The Kus.