Loving see you back on the forums @ntindle
As above, I think iterating through this is the best approach and working through some important questions, such as one of life-time payment (what everyone here now had to do via original NFT as you’ve said) and recurring payment (what @mannyornothing has suggested). What would be nice to see is whatever membership parameters are in place they’re controlled by the community via Governance (i.e. community sets the one-off/yearly price on-chain via Governance votes).
@ntindle as a thought exercise, can you think of reasons why you might feel comfortable paying a recurring membership? What if a significant proportion of the fee goes directly to funding community/OS project by design (maybe we create something like ENS Small grants in the DAO, members vote on allocating the revenue)? Would that change your view? Hearing you on the “paid my dues”, could something this be a mechanism for supporting people who come after us.
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On a separate but important note, a problem space like this with multiple potential options to consider is not well suited to Basic Voting (For/Against), we’re relying on proposal authors to parse all of the feedback and resubmit a binary vote. @wolovim opened an interesting discussion about voting types and voting strategies - Idea: Update Snapshot Voting Strategy.
This could be an excellent chance to test a more democratic voting strategies such as:
- Single choice (vote for one out multiple options not for/against)
- Weighted voting (spread your vote across multiple options)
- Approval Voting (Choose which options you’d support, vote equally split between them)
These approaches allow the community to weight in properly on the options via a vote, vs just replying to a forum post and hoping for edits, or submitting a competing proposal (folks should do this if they feel passionately about an alternative route, competing proposals must face a vote with both as options under P-21: Simplifying the Developer DAO Improvement Proposal (DDIP) Process.