Backup Return Proposal and General Guidelines

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Blurt Core has issued this proposal to be a backup return proposal, we believe this to be a new best practice because proposals can be canceled by the issuer and we wouldn't want a case where the pool is left wide open without a return proposal, so an auxiliary return proposal from a trusted source makes a lot of sense.

All proposals with vote participation greater than this and the other return proposal will receive funding. Blurt Core will vote for this proposal only with its one account @socialgraph and team personal accounts for the time being and reserves the right to vote with other official accounts if necessary.

The idea is that since the proposal system will be freshly opened up to the community, @socialgraph will also vote for proposals that the Blurt Core team deems to be a good fit for the community, our voting account will thus act as a baseline vote for proposals we feel pass our preliminary guidelines detailed below.

Once passed our minimum criteria, the community can then vote and rank them accordingly, some may still not receive funding if higher voted proposals receive all the funding first.

Be aware that only original stake affects proposal voting, delegations received don't count. Witness proxy voting affects voting as well, if you proxy to someone else, they will have your full Blurt Power proxy to vote proposals on your behalf and your won proposal vote won't count until you cancel the proxy.

We are looking to deprecate proxies on the next hard fork so this shouldn't be an issue much longer.

Proposal Guidelines

• Write a general discussion post and gauge community sentiment on your idea before making an official proposal, once you have established the community is mostly in favour, then go ahead and create your proposal with a link to your discussion post in the body.

• It is preferred that some deliverables are already provided as a show of faith, for example, a Gitlab link to code that you have already started to develop.

• Provide as much evidence as possible, supplier invoices/quotes, contact details of supplier for verification etc.

• Have defined and tangible targets rather open-ended collection proposals for a project with a yet-to-be-determined future cost.

• Be mindful of the amount of funding you are requesting, the proposal system only pays out approx. 326,000 BLURT per month, just under 11K per day so ensure that you make allowance for other proposals to co-exist.

• Declare your collateral. If you are a witness state that fact, or make mention of how much Blurt you have powered up or follower count and proof of active engagement for social status collateral.

• If the proposal is a development project please ensure it is open source and a repo created at https://gitlab.com/blurt/openblurt

If you think of any other ideas to add to this guideline list, please comment below.

Sincerely,

The Blurt Core Team