[DAO: QmRPAPX] Refund MANA Difference for Wearables Submitted by Creators After the Publication Fee Adjustment Poll and Before its Enactment

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by 0xe58d9940a395d303e691dbe0676710d9c140101a (Archonomous)

Summary: This proposal is in favor of refunding the fee publication cost difference to wearable Creators only for wearables submitted after the passing of the recent fee publication adjustment proposal, and before the adjustment was implemented.

Overview: The wearable publication cost was recently adjusted from the original fee of 500 MANA per item to a new $500 USD-pinned fee that updates weekly based on the approximate price of MANA in USD.

This adjustment was voted on in the DAO (link above) and concluded on November 7th, 2021. Following the passing of the proposal, there was a duration of time before the fee change went into effect. This refund proposal would only affect wearables submitted during this period of ‘limbo’, where the changes were approved, but hadn’t yet been enacted.

Proposal:

(1) Establish a time stamp for when the approved wearable publishing fee adjustment went into public affect on the https://builder.decentraland.org/ domain

(2) Determine which wearables were published at the original 500 MANA fee after the DAO approval on 10:13AM on November 7th, 2021 (snapshot below) and before the time stamp established from step (1)

https://snapshot.org/#/snapshot.dcl.eth/proposal/QmZ8DGYqLb8yVCmiN8XmnqyYu3BMw8bS23NJWQ2335PQQW

(3) Calculate, audit, and issue credit back to affected creators for the price difference according to the newly-approved and implemented system applied to MANA prices at the original time of publication.

For example, if 2 wearables were published by Creator X on November 10th for 1,000 MANA and the price of MANA was $4 USD at that time, then the actual price per the enacted DAO proposal would be 125 MANA ( = $500 USD ) for each wearable. According to this math, Creator X should’ve paid only 250 MANA rather than 1,000 and would be eligible to receive a 750 MANA refund while still having paid the updated publication fee.

Purpose: Why is this important to the Decentraland community? As an involved community member and creator myself, I understand the importance creators have on the growth of this fantastic community and social ecosystem. During this ‘limbo’ period, although it was no more than a week or so, many creators were dissuaded from publishing content knowing that the fees were going to be adjusted to a lower price.

For some, deadlines do not permit us to be selective about when we submit wearables for review, so for those that were negatively impacted by this short-lived situation, this would be appropriate compensation. Lastly, it should also be stated that this is a unique scenario and that few creators actually submitted during this time, so the total impact is relatively small making this a feasible proposal to take on and address.

Thank you kindly for your time and consideration ~

  • Agree to Refund MANA Difference to Affected Creators
  • Do Not Refund MANA Difference to Affected Creators
  • Invalid question/options

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Refund MANA Difference for Wearables Submitted by Creators After the Publication Fee Adjustment Poll and Before its Enactment

This proposal is now in status: FINISHED.

Voting Results:

  • Agree to refund mana difference to affected creators 60% 3,362,234 VP (41 votes)
  • Do not refund mana difference to affected creators 39% 2,200,921 VP (5 votes)
  • Invalid question/options 1% 4,074 VP (1 votes)
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Refund MANA Difference for Wearables Submitted by Creators After the Publication Fee Adjustment Poll and Before its Enactment

This proposal has been PASSED by a DAO Committee Member (0xfe91c0c482e09600f2d1dbca10fd705bc6de60bc)

Passed by community vote

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When can we expect to see some actions on this passed proposal?

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To whom this concerns, this was passed months ago and was mentioned in the DAO Committee Report from December 20th, 2021, however there has been no visible progress or updates since. Please reference the report below:

Here’s an extraction from the report that reads:

This will impact wearables published between the dates of November 7th, 2021 - when the proposal passed - and when the decision was implemented on November 26, 2021. This will affect 400 MANA refunds for approximately 34 different collections, comprising 141 items. This refund will be calculated and returned to addresses that minted each impacted collection over the coming weeks.

I hope I speak for all affected Creators when I say that we are simply looking for any updates to the distribution timeline, as it has now been months, not weeks. Thank you kindly in advance for looking back into this.

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@dao @nacho @hprivakos ~ I am not sure who to ping for this, but if you are able to please provide an update to us creators, that would be immensely appreciated!

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Refund MANA Difference for Wearables Submitted by Creators After the Publication Fee Adjustment Poll and Before its Enactment

This proposal has been ENACTED by a DAO Committee Member (0xfe91c0c482e09600f2d1dbca10fd705bc6de60bc)

23 Creators received a refund for their submissions. A total number of 141 submissions were refunded, for a total value of 57,200 MANA.

Details:
The refunds are processed since November 7th, 2021 (unix timestamp = 1636305180).

Submissions can be found at DCL subgraph using the following query:

{
  items(first: 1000, where: {createdAt_gt:1636305180 ,creationFee_gt:"100000000000000000000"}) {
    id
    createdAt
    creationFee
    creator
    metadata {
      wearable {
        name
      }
    }
  }
}

Save the output and process it to group submissions by creator and multiply the count of submissions by 400 which is the amount to refund.