I envy the “public goods” brand halo that @optimism has seemed to monopolize (a good thing btw!)

I dunno I think that got slightly tarnished with some of the more recent Retro Grants.

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I think this was maybe like 12-18 months ago. I think a lot of creators felt like they got burned when they created more criteria and sub sets of groups that could apply. I think it was honestly probably just someone dropped the ball on comms but it had quite big ripple effects.

Oh really? I remember chatter about certain teams gaming the system months ago but haven’t heard about that since