Nice post, I was watching the last few weeks the return proposal. 

Being it very high thinking, how can smaller projects with less visibility ever get so much upvote.. Seems to be strong arm between some of the bigger projects. 
Now i see there is more to it and the number of proposals is limited.

I believe the transparency is very important, what will it bring back for the community. 

Now the return proposal is back to "normal" is a more achievable amount imho.

There was a garage sale the other day, and there were cassettes. That was very interesting, as even DVDs and CDs are hard to play these days, nobody has the devices anymore - especially here in Ecuador. Developing countries sometimes just skip a technology :-D

About the other subject, if I understand correctly, the Return-Proposal is meant as a barrier - everyone who's actively voting on DHF-Fundings, can give his vote to the Return-Proposal. If other proyects don't the same amounts of voting-weight or more, they don't get any funding. So it's kind of a safety mechanism that makes it harder to get funding, ensuring better quality?
Is the return proposal one single one that every other funding-proposal has to surpass, or is there one return proposal for every funding proposal?

I totally agree with this.  I think we need to look at these more like grants are handled in the real world.  I can't think of a single grant I apply for in my job where I don't have to keep detailed records of how I spend the money that has been entrusted to me and the outcomes I create from it.

Speaking of VSC, would you mind sharing your opinion on that one?

!PIZZA

My biggest concert with the DHF is the lack of any accountability whatsoever. Even the *good* proposals are "trust me bro", and with the bad ones you can almost see the *wink wink*. I always go back to saying if a proposal can't document every single HBD spent, funding should be instantly revoked. 

Anyway, great analysis of the haiku, probably the most famous haiku in the world. Once long ago I did a post on it if you are interested (<https://peakd.com/@dbooster/old-pond-haiku-of-japan-100>). That was made on the old chain. I should go back and update it one of these days, or do a new write up of it, because more can always be said (and always as I read my own writing, I get frustrated at how I wrote what I wrote and what I missed). 

Things evolve even if we show resistance, change is inevitable.

Nice post

You brought some nostalgia to me… I had a huge cd collection that had to get rid of when I got married since we were moving to a small 2 bedroom apartment! 
It is good that you have a good memory like that … sometimes i go back to posts 2 years ago and get surprised with my own things that I wrote! Usually I remember the topics that I wrote about but not details and how I wrote about them ( I am my worst critic for sure).

Anyways, when I saw the title of the post I got curious because there are things that for sure it is permanent ! Like this comment or the comment that you mentioned and they will last more compared to our limited memory! But what you brought is for sure not permanent. All the mechanics of the blockchain aren’t permanent! Even the author rewards can change or end for one day to another, sometimes I think that would have some benefits for the value of Hive.
DHF spending is always a very controversial subject at Hive! It brings the most apocalyptical talks in my dms but it for sure scares us with daily values being spent! Something that I talked some times with some people is that all the proposals are made in an amateur way. I think you have or had some experience with academia and probably you had some experience with grant writing and reporting. Probably you know how detailed we need to be to justify every penny spent.. we can’t just guess that we need 100k USD without detailing how we are going to spend and after a report of what we spent and many of them we need to return it (specially if it is a gov grant).
If I use this type of mindset with our proposals in here , as a reviewer, I wouldn’t approve any of the proposals right now even if some of the projects are vital for the blockchain.

Everything I want to say about this topic has been said already by others. Shall I repeat and recycle their comment, or shall I tell you what a great post this is 🤔

Some projects have very high funding with no tangible results. The return proposal is a wake up call for projects to be more transparent.