These are very valid concerns and ones we definitely want to take to heart.
No, GovFactor is simply looking at addresses who have voted on the most recent proposal on Snapshot and adding a multiplier to their weekly BAL liquidity mining allocation. No need to cross-link any addresses to a forum or public username anywhere.
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Totally agreed that coordinating and funding a committee right out of the gate seems like a big task and not one we should rush into. Instead, would love to get feedback around a much softer program where we allocate BAL to those with the #BALer tag on Discord who have demonstrated they are knowledgable and willing to act as a community steward.
After listening to this feedback I’d also agree with @tongnk that reeling back the scope of this first Governance Mining program makes a lot of sense.
_ is going to work on a synthesized version of this featuring the GovFactor (with opsec in mind), and ‘Community Mining’ i.e. Forum + Discord incentives using SourceCred and abstain from launching a formal committee out of the gate.
Thanks all for the feedback 