This post builds on the old 4 Domains of MetaGame post & the new MetaGame DAO 2.0 - Governance, Rings & Rewards, going into more detail & responsibilities of the domains.
WTF are the 4 Rings & the Octagon
The 4 rings are the 4 main domains of MetaGame:
- Community
- Content
- Technology
- Growth
And the Octagon is the replacement of the Champions Ring except no longer scaling to infinity but capped to 8 participants focused on reporting progress of the 4 domains &
This makes it more centralized & more decentralized at the same time.
But that is less important, whatās important is that it makes it actually scalable.
It makes it more effective & allows for the focus to actually be strategy rather than 15 people talking over each other & dragging out a 1 hour call to 2h without actually accomplishing much.
Hereās what itād look like:
Hereās how it would work:
- The Octagon is made up of 8 members, 4 champions & 4 deputies representing the 4 domains
- Each domain ring is made up of 8 of the most active players in that domain
- As new members want to join beyond 8, the ring champion decides whether an existing member should be removed or whether the ring should split into 2
- Each raid & guild can eventually become their own ring when/if needed
- All 4 rings & the Octagon would also be Coordinape circles, meeting on a weekly basis
- People inside these circles decide how to allocate funding within their ring
- People inside the Octagon decide how to allocate funding between the rings
- The community decides who gets to be in The Octagon via informal processes or a bi-seasonal vote
A call of The Octagon champions!
If weāre adopting this new structure, which seems likely, weāll need 4 new champions to step up.
It will work similarly to the current way of championing but the responsibilities & stakes will be higher.
General Responsibilities
The main responsibility of The Octagon champions would be:
- Come up with an overall strategy & roadmap for their domain
- Set priorities & manage the Dework board
- Report progress from their Domain Rings
Specific Responsibilities
Pretty much as the map above outlinesā¦
Content Ring:
- Newsletter
- Podcasts
- Playbooks
- Writers Guild & Artists Guild
Community Ring:
- Community Gatherings & workshops
- Player & guild wellbeing
- Rewards (Seeds & Chievmints)
- Innkeepers Guild & Bridgebuilders Guild
Technology Ring:
- MyMeta
- MetaOS
- Chievmints
- Builders Guild & Designers Guild
Growth Ring:
- Subscribers & followers
- New players, patrons & guilds
- Shillers Guild & Rainmakers Guild (+ Bridgebuilders Guild)
General superpowers
Any champion has full autonomy to add & remove contributors from their circle and manage their circle as they see fit.
Contributors are free to escalate their unhappiness to The Octagon & the wider community.
Specific superpowers
- Content champion: Refuse to publish content deemed to be of inferior quality
- Community champion: Suspend people for misbehavior & delete messages deemed toxic
- Technology champion: Refuse to merge requests with inferior quality code
- Growth champion: Refuse to onboard guilds & patrons who donāt seem to be a good fit
Champions are also free to delegate these powers to other players, guilds or raids that are a part of their circle.
General requirements
- Think about the above
- Write a reply to this post outlining why you want to champion a ring & what you would do over the next 6 months
Soā¦
Whoās in?