Gating who can make Gitcoin proposals on Snapshot

THE PROBLEM: Over the past month, web3 (Gitcoin included) has experienced a series of “fake” or scam Snapshot proposals that have been posted to various DAO snapshot sites.

To quickly lock down the proposal capability, the Gitcoin Snapshot account was locked using Gitcoin Passport, limiting posters to those who had donated to past grants rounds. This approach had issues given that database updates were no all ways 100%, thus the account was updated to allow posting only from those with a balance of at least 100GTC, or those who had greater than 1000 Twitter followers.

TENSION: The social contract governing the proposal/vote process at Gitcoin was defined in Gitcoin DAO Governance Process v3. 3Generally speaking, anyone can make a proposal on the forum and it has to 1) be available for comment for five days and 2) receive comments from five stewards. With those two conditions met, and given the formatting of the proposal was correct, the proposal could move to Snapshot for vote.

This action proposes Gitcoin move forward with recommended Option #2 which states:

Option 2: Continue to use Passport as a control, using at least GTC = 100 or twitter followers = 1000 This option would gate proposals via Gitcoin Passport connected to Snapshot using the existing stamps, which are at least 100GTC tokens held OR 1000 Twitter followers.

See the link below for full discussion and the options evaluated.