reducing feed price cause more margin calling so need to be careful, increasing feed price do not bring direct hurt to traders.

last one is too slow to respond to downward movements...

maybe it protects from sudden/big margin calls but peg goes to hell

need to keep a state of market price and factor the market movement into those equations

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Unlike Thul3, I don't think the management fee is that high. At our company (and previous agencies I worked at), we regularly charge that or more.

I don't agree on that.Just because big companies are paying this kind of money it doesn't mean there are no way cheaper proprosals which deliver at least the same quality of work.

Most big agencies work with these kind of people to do their job and are charging their customers up to 500% for it which they pay to their partners.
They are basicly accuiring customers and forwarding the work to their partnerships..

I agree that the Media budget is way to low if you want to use it for a 12 months period however i also don't belive that bitshares should go with its marketing to an agency expecially when reading their news website offers.These agancies are basicly needed for complete noobs and they will never bring any good ROI in.

Bitshares has in no way a Budget like Coca-Cola,Microsoft,Lufthansa or any other big company which goal and measureing is totaly diffrent than bitshares.They also calculate in the longrun and are not forced to compete against bigger competitors and thats why they are willing to spend way overpriced ad prices to achive Branding and more important Prestige thinking in public.

Bitshares main goal should be getting massivly new members on DEX who will be trading.
Adding Brand awareness doesn't bring anything if there won't be a nice amount of volume which majority of traders require.

And for this kind of goal there are far more targeted possibilities to gain these traders with way cheaper solutions.
Bitshares should be not focusing on spending money to increase awareness of that brand but focusing on accuring new members generating volume and profit which indirectly means generating a good ROI.Once bitshares will be able to find a marketing solution which will generate a good ROI the growth of bitshares will be quickly as any good ROI can be quickly scaled up.

However the mentioned strategy above is not getting you a good ROI at all and if you take stratagies from big companies you will need to wait a longer time to get your initial investment back since these companies calculate totaly diffrent as they need total diffrent promotion channels.

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To be honest, I can understand why/how this proposal came about as I considered this as an exercise myself  and realized it would cost around 5k USD in manhours  to only come up with the brief/RFP  that a worker proposal should answer.

Completly agree on that but the nonsense bla bla to explain everything like talking to a complete noob is also frustrating since its just nice words without any meaning.
Its just poor time wasting.

Personly with this kind of budget i would spend part of it on unconventional marketing (something like guerilla marketing for the internet) as they do exist and stop going after the herd.


My old mentor always claimed :
People who run after the herd will always eat only their crap.

And watching the prices the herd is paying for so called crypto related websites like cointelegraph,bitcoin.com ads distribution,CMC etc its just insane.The prices of pseudo crypto influencers are the biggest overhyped solutions and still companies with no knowledge about real marketing are willing to pay it.
As example a known youtube channel with average 5k views per clip is demanding $10k.

Bitshares should be also thinking about creating their own news distribution channels as the current one are only informing a handfull of people

This turns into a general question: Should the committee ever force-transfer (revert) wrong transfers even if they can be proven without any doubt?

If the question to that answer is "yes", there are a couple things that need to be done *BEFORE* actions can taken:
* 100% prove that the transfer was "wrong" and a reversal is legally and morally o.k.
* a procedure as to WHO does WHAT in case of a refersal (e.g. should the committee become intermediary of funds for a few weeks?)
* Fees need to be paid because it is a manual process - how much? who would get that fee? 50%+1 of committee need to agree still!

If the answer is "no", then we need to
* educate people more about the finality of transfers (i thin we do a good job at that already)
* should committee opt out of the "allow issuer to overwrite transfers"? permission to end this once and for all?

Thanks for your work to organize this!