COMMUNITY GUIDELINES
Greetings to the community.
I’m Boma Samuel popularly known as “psalm” and not to say much I would like to elaborate on the community guidelines.
Yesterday was my 1year anniversary of been in the forum, and I’ve been active and also follow up chats and post too….
So I’ve made this post to help assist and also support the community engagement draft, we all are humans and expected to make mistakes or errors so we need to learn how to take Corrections from our mistakes
What brings us together as a community?
NEAR: Near popular know as Near Protocol, with fully understanding what “protocol” as an official procedure, level or system of rules governing affairs of state,community or an organization.
Protocol is simply a set of rules guiding and governing a community and in my own opinion community members, moderators, council leaders, leaders etc seem to show less concern about this rules while some still abide by the protocol that governs the community.
Making research on different definitions of Near on wiki,coinbase,livecoin watch, medium, Binance and near.org they all have different definitions of near but the key words includes, decentralization, scalability, secured, DAPPS, simple and an open source for developers to build on.
Near is well know for transparency
When smt is said to be Transparent : Is something you can see through, something not hidden and as Near is known for transparency all activities on near is been posted on the forum for everyone to see, contribute, comment, support, collaborate, learn and also make new friends.
As a community member on the forum IMHO what I’ve observed from community leaders on forum that lacks transparency
- Most leaders reject proposal without reasons, as people who submitted proposal would want to see a reason why their proposal was rejected or not supported
- Leaders supporting Co-leaders proposal without questioning the proposal is injustice and unfair to the community
- Making vote on proposal on a call (off-forum) without prove of audio or clip of the event is not transparent and lacks decentralization, as all discussion should be made best on the forum
- Voting on a DAO as a moderator cause you’re part of the DAO or a co-moderator is involved even when the DAO doesn’t follow guidelines is seen as unfair to the community
- Closing/Approving a proposal without the majority vote or agreement is a form of power advantage and it’s discouraging to those who power is not vested to
- Inactive DAO or member with voting power should be voted out, in this way vote can be carried out swiftly and faster, mostly when it’s an AWOL
As an active community member on the forum my observation from my fellow community member lacking transparency
- Members opposing fellow members, leader or laying aligation without prove or information about what they’ve said.
- Members requesting for funds on Astro without information on forum concerning why they need it
WHAT WE SHOULD DO
What we should do to help us improve and be united
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Contribute: we all as a community need to contribute on the forum for progression and growth, as we are correlated to Near blockchain
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We should assist on justifying proposal and tell if the proposal is going to make impact or promote near
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We should always support near by using the provided tools and infrastructure for voting,Defi, NFT etc
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We should make bounty on forum and not outside the forum, so as to support nearians with open opportunities
WHAT WE SHOULD NOT DO
Suck puppet accounts : this is an account assumed to be opened by someone as a fictitious account for their personal advantage and this not accepted in any community as it is prohibited 
Discriminate: discrimination is been unjust and unfair to other categories like age difference, race, sex and lack of skills as we are one community we should respect each other’s personalities
Nonchalant: Most people are nonchalant when it comes to Near activities and they show less concern then later contribute or state false news due to been inactive or less concerned
Power Advantage: Most use power and rank of post to bully people in the community and make others with less power feel irrelevant
Racism: antagonism of individual in the community is against the rule of community and individuals as we all are one
Scam: any form of scam is not acceptable, be it fictitious account, misleading of members, making promises you can’t keep to, introducing a project to take peoples money or information from them etc
HOW CAN NEAR SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY
I was introduced to Near through a friend introducing OWS open bounty to me, and I was able to earn and make content for Near.
The community need an open opportunity with different categories in which the community can engage or involve to earn and contribute to the Ecosystem
- Provision of job: providing job for the community help builds the community and keep the community active and make people functional and useful
- Allocation of jobs: duties and responsibilities should be shared among members,if members are not fit for the position an online/offline course can be provided to the communities.
- Provision of more infrastructure and tools to make activities easier.
- Paying more attention on our democracy policy
We need to be strong individually to make a strong community, lack of activities, unfair justice, disrespect etc can bring withdrawal of members and inactive members.
And I think we need a committee in charge of making people abide by the rules, code of conduct and protocol of Near. This committee can be inchage of making sure people abide by the rules and also teach about democracy, code of conduct, and also other schemes that would make Near the best community and as to grow in unity
You can:
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- Subtract to my post or correct me where am wrong
- Contribute and add your thoughts
Thank y’all
have a good day