I’m the largest ENS holder delegating to Brantly & have been asked to consider delegating to someone else.
Open to considering all this but I have a few questions & thoughts:
Is there a doc detailing Brantly’s responsibilities in his role? Does terminating mean complete exclusion & how will that impact the operation of ENS? If he is terminated, who will replace him? Brantly has proven to be an excellent operator and his exclusion could be severely damaging to ENS.
I want to echo Lefteris’ thoughts here. Being a minority myself, I’m personally against the bigotry expressed in Brantly’s tweets. But I want to give him the benefit of the doubt and let him post a more detailed response to what he thinks about all of this.
Brantly is famous for saying that we’ve been airdropped responsibility and not free money. I hope he also understands that Brantly in 2022 has been airdropped more power, as well as more responsibility, than the Brantly from 2016.
Even if his opinions don’t change, which I think is his right, the way he expresses them needs to evolve and become more nuanced. This is simply what leadership for a project that might touch billions someday demands.
I am guessing that the delegates and the community will receive a word from TNL about the next steps, or at least a nudge in some direction? I am unsure by what means people can give their input. I won’t be surprised if many people have this question. ENS Discourse is now a well-attended forum.
@spencecoin will update his post to hopefully provide a clear detailed picture of how Brantly was offered several (massive understatement) chances to correct his public position and amend his words but he declined those with disdain and went on to get embroiled in literally hate speech with nearly 4000 listeners on Twitter spaces. We all liked Brantly a lot but the critical mass has reached now and thresholds have been crossed. It is pretty cool that you have been asked to reconsider; it shows DAOs work as they are supposed to.
Some of your questions remain unanswered but I am unaware of the answers myself. Stick around and you’ll find out what to do next at the same time as the rest of us. Re-delegating your votes at this point is a no-brainer at least; you can find at least 1.2k delegate applications here.
Thanks for the link, missed that in all the threads.
Haven’t made a decision on switching delegates yet and hope to still to hear from Brantly given everything he’s read since then.
TBH, I don’t have that much of an issue with Brantly’s beliefs. Sure, they are quite wildly against what I stand for, but the world is a large place and it’s important that a wide variety of perspectives exist and are heard.
What is troubling is that Brantly doesn’t seem to recognize the new responsibility that comes with his position as ENS gains more importance.
From the spaces, he claims that he should be able to tweet what he wants and that expressing mainstream religious views shouldn’t exclude you from web3. IMO, no one is seriously thinking about stopping him from participating in web3. The issue is he’s not just a participant, he’s a prominent leader in arguably one of the most important protocols in web3.
Such a position requires understanding that communication to a large audience is lossy. And that achieving the best outcomes requires internalizing how your message will be received by a diverse set of listeners. It’s fine if he needs to grow into this role, but I worry it’s not something he realizes he needs to get better at.
I’ve listened to most of the Alisha twitter space yesterday and while I understand the pov opposing brantly I still think we haven’t given him the freedom of expression and the chance to apologize, neither have we considered other alternative solutions like sanctions and punishments instead of radical termination.
So the way it is now, if the proposal has only the Yes/No options, I might lean towards No. Not because I agree with him, but because of the short-sightedness of this proposal and the lack of responsability. None of you have come up with alternatives or seriously considered the aftermath of this decision on ENS.
Please discuss this thoroughly before taking terminal decisions. Drastic decisions that are pushed by people that have absolutely no skin in ENS who will get what they want and never contribute here again, are not decisions that I will personally stand behind.
In that case please modify the topic to reflect this. As @matoken.eth already mentioned the role you want to remove him from is the one he was fired from TNL.
The topic should reflect that this is for his role as Director for the DAO.
I feel like preserving the historical context of this debate is imperative to the future understanding of researchers and ecosystem participants.
With that said, can we not host the audio on Dropbox and instead use a permanent storage solution like Arweave or IPFS (who will pin?)?
People will look back at this in the future and it’s critical they have the full context, as many place more weight on the 2022 response than the 2016-2018 tweets. Dropbox does not offer permanent censorship-resistant storage.
I cannot access the audio without making a Dropbox account. Fewer than ~0.25% of people worldwide have a paid Dropbox account.
