Title: Founding Partners of NFT Seattle
Proposer: nouncil.eth
Block: 15455294
Link: https://nouns.wtf/vote/136
Request: send 40 ETH to be title sponsors of NFT Seattle in late September
Result: DEFEATED
43 votes, 5 voters97 votes, 12 voters0 votes, 0 votersTL;DRIn Discord, after the proposal was defeated, some Nouners discussed that perhaps the proposal wasn’t particularly nounish or an effective use of funds
krel explains (goldy, gremplin agree): “title sponsor of an event does not strike me as very nounish — its not fun, its not quirky, its not thought-provoking. is simply plastering an event with noggles proliferation? is it spreading the meme? i dont think so — none of that would make me fall in love with nouns if it was my first exposure
this begets the question: how do we actually reach new audiences? i dont know, but i dont think sponsoring events is it”
No on-chain reasons for “against” votes
Very little engagement in Discourse, only one positive comment
I find Noun 22’s take comparing this prop to prop #135 (which requested 5x the funding but passed unanimously) a really interesting reflection on “Nounishness” -
*The DAO has been gravitating towards proposals that prioritize Nounishness above everything else, which I think is great and what we should be doing.
The most telling example of this recent shift are: the Xanadu/Blu proposal, which passed with overwhelming support because of the proposer’s overflowing passion for the project and desire to worldbuild in his vision... contrast that with the NFT Seattle proposal, which was very professional done and seemed like a fair deal, but really felt somewhat generic and corporate, didn’t imbue Nouns with any kind of personality, and felt like they could have subbed out the Noggles for [insert other pfp here] and it wouldn’t have changed much.*
This also connects to an idea I saw somewhere else on Discord that Nouns isn’t at a stage brand-wise where it can afford to just be shown without context or explanation. When I see a proposal like this, I try to think “what would have made this pass?”. I think the key here would have been to think Nouns-first; looking at it, it feels more like a corporate proposal than an opportunity to expand the Nouns Universe.