"He has over 2 years of experience working directly with the Splinterlands team to manage and grow social media accounts,"

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the game's reputation on its ass with nearly everyone having fled? Now while I'm not trying to say that's his fault, it is though fair to say that there would appear to be no evidence from the game's social media presence that he has done enough to deserve this frankly fantastic salary to live it up while living in Thailand.  Can we see his actual qualifications, work history and everything else? Also how does hiring a friend and occasional colleague of the team amount to the Dao being independent from Splinterlands?

It's a no for me. 

An easy NO. 60K USD is way too high for someone staying at Southeast Asia and Splinterlands social media management, especially on Twitter was poor..There's little to no promotions the past few years, especially during the bull market! Whoever's in charge only used it more like an info and announcements dump! Absolutely no promotions to bring in new players into the ecosystem! 

With the rise of DEXes, CEX listing outside the top few CEXs are pretty much useless. There's no guarantee one person can get it unless it's also paid by the DAO!

Apart from the initial partnership with Pancakeswap for SPS, most partnerships have flopped since then and always tried to extract from the existing Splinterlands community.

How can the DAO hire someone yet report to the team?

Does he even have a valid working visa at the moment?

We are deep in the bear market, recession coming, people lost jobs and now we want to pay a guy "appropriately"?

Nothing personal against Clayboyn.

2 years working on promoting social networks and advertising of splinterlands_ and lejendarias at 0.5$... SPS $0.014, player churn, 0 new players, ruinous partnerships.... Please Immediate Dismissal

I would rather do like what we did with the most recent pack sale. Where $60,000 is sent to the company and then the company manages the hires. I 'm not exactly sure that's how this is currently setup or worded. But hiring directly from the DAO sounds like a huge mess. That's just my opinion so I'm curious to hear more on the subject.

Payments based on hourly rate and number of hours done for already completed work seem far more reasonable and secure for the DAO, in my view. They also give opportunity for multiple people to offer to do the needed work, which supports decentralization and avoids single points of failure. 

For example, a person does some amount of work and then they put in a proposal for the work they have done to be paid. They describe how many hours the work took and what their hourly rate is. The risk for the person is minimized since the DAO would be very happy to provide the payment so that the person will want to continue providing their valuable work. 

There is a vast opportunity which will sadly be lost if you think of a DAO as a typical company that is putting people on a payroll. The DAO allows for massive flexibility. Let's use the technology's possibilities. 

This still allows anyone to be engaged full time. They'll just take on as much or as little work as they want. The flexibility is great to have for the person, they can work when they want. The result? Far more happiness, far better work being done.

i wonder how it works with the laws and the taxes, the dao can hardly write an employment contract or deal with the tax office. or can you just hire workers or work in the relevant countries. without this has to be reported somewhere and no one checks it because the tax office does not want taxes or trust the people blindly? can there be problems for the dao in the end? does he end up working for splinterlands after all?

I remain humbled that you support this idea Matt. I would love to continue to be of service to this community full time if they find it valuable for me to do so. Thanks for the support!

First I was very sceptical because I don't really know what a DAO really is. I thought it is a company that only exists in the digiworld (internet). But as I saw that it is Yabapmatt who made this proposal ... well I will vote with yes. So clayboyn will be the first official freelancer of the SPS DAO.

60K USD a year...no way, this is simply way too much for such role.  Let's stop spending money like drunken sailors. Let's be responsible for once. Trial run of 3 months, $2,000 USD per month, and then extend the contract following a performance review and a vote by the community. 

If you guys want lots of employes we will pay for it in inflation

I think Clay is a good choice for this role.  I have found him to be reasonable and balanced on most issues, and I trust him.  I think he has been and will continue to be an asset to the community (whether in this role or not).

Why not make payment in DEC? since dao is earning that via rebellion sale

its stable currency that dao will never get back

Has the management of this game/company ever made any sound decisions? It’s laughable. Honestly just look at how poorly it has performed over the pats 2-3 years. The fact that they’re suggesting this proposal is a clear vote that it should NOT happen imo.

Let the game die already. It’s not even a game anymore, they don’t even focus on the mechanics of the game to make it better or attractive.

But what do I know.

I agree that we need to hire someone.. but the pay is way too high so its a no

TL;DR: LOL no 😂 This proposal is wrong on so many levels that's incredible, but if I had only ONE question : 

Why spending a whooping 60k for social media management when we can hire 1.5 full time developers for the same amount of money ? 

Actually I have a bunch of other questions and remarks:

1/ The social media management was not especially amazing until now , just functional I would say. So why hiring the same person instead of fresh blood with fresh ideas ? Like an expert in the domain for example (and especially for 60k ... )

2/ 60 000 USD per year is a huge amount of money, something you only get at  fairly high level positions in rich countries, that does not seems a good fit for the job as it is described here. I mean there are much more valuables ways to spend 60k for the game (like hiring more full time devs for actually delivering ... )

3/ Either SPL ask DAO for funding (or a loan!) and they hire the guy they want, we trust you guys, or there should be an official job description, job posting and reviewing where the community can participate. Otherwise it sends the wrong signal (nepotism and corruption), and I won't teach you anything by telling you that the success of crypto projets is all about trust.

4/ Why don't we start agreeing to put that DAO money to work and then hire people with that APR money ? 

5/ I am repeating the same thing over and over, but SPL need first content and then promotion. I would gladly approve a proposal to hire a senior game developer for 60k ! The problem is not money but return on investment, and right now the game needs to deliver and build trust.

I have other comments in mind but I will stop for now, and I would like to say that there is nothing personal against anyone, just my thoughts.