1/X:👇 Mini thread with some thoughts and hopefully constructive criticism on the extension of the @gitcoin CLR grant round by 3 days.

I have a lot of respect for the work @owocki @vsinghdothings, @notscottmoore and others are doing. My goal is to see this experiment succeed.
2/X:

Yesterday I was taken by surprise to see that the CLR match round was extended by 3 more days.

https://twitter.com/gitcoin/status/1247280628971843585

I consider this a big change in the rules of the game. Especially when the round has been saturated for 2 days already in all 3 tracks. 😠
3/X:

What is saturation?Best explained looking at an example.Look at a screenshot of the @rotkiapp grant yesterday and today👀

In what would have been the last day we got 13 new contributors who more than doubled our donated amount!

Despite that the CLR match estimate dropped.
4/X:

What does that mean for the donors? Mismanaged expectations. They see that 1 DAI will increase the matched amount by 41 DAI, but in truth it won't. 🤥😢
5/X:

What does that mean for the admin of a grant?

It means change of plan and even further shilling. 😞

No action means faster acceleration in the CLR estimate drop.📉

Getting more donors means only a slowdown (but not a stop) in the CLR estimate drop.

This is exhausting.
6/X:

It also boils down to this:

At this point it's hard to justify asking donors to use @gitcoin grants. CLR matching no longer works after saturation 😬

A direct donation works better:
- Requires only 1 direct transaction -- no contract calls
- Has no Gitcoin fee
🤯
7/X:

I will write up a more detailed criticism and feedback for both the extension and some other problems I have noticed with the grant system in a blogpost once the round is over here: https://blog.rotki.com/  ✍️

Again, I want this process to improve hence the criticism.
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