Hunters

you spent 3 months grinding in a DC role system that rugged the community in the end billions taught us all, an expensive lesson here's how to spot a legitimate role system before you waste your time (bookmark this | you'll need it before your next project) ----------- green flags that tell you it's real: > the project actually needs you : Sentient needed chat users to train their AI, Boundless needed node runners, Story needed content creators to grow IP ecosystem when the project's product literally cannot grow without community, they have real incentive to reward you if the product works fine without you, you're most likely just free marketing (focused on B2C more) > max 3 roles with clear criteria : Almost every legitimate project that paid well in past had 3 roles or less Sentient : Early → Advanced → Sentient AGI Story : Adept → Seeker → Ascendant Plasma : simple 3-tier structure when a project keeps adding more roles, ambassador, super OG, elite contributor, that's extraction not an opportunity > they review quality, not just volume : Sentient manually reviewed thousands of contributions only 1067 community members earned qualifying roles out of hundreds of thousands, that selectivity is the reward signal if anyone can get the role by spamming 10K messages, the role means nothing > regional and diverse moderation team : legitimate projects hire mods from different regions, different backgrounds, they understand community from ground level outsourced mod teams with scripted responses = the team doesn't care about community > they listen feedbacks and actually applies : Story Protocol publicly asked community to help define OG criteria, Sentient built Season 2 based directly on community feedback when a team treats feedback as a product improvement, that's a builder mindset when they ignore everything, that's extraction mindset ----------- red flags that tell you to run: > role system running for more than 6-8 months : dilution kills rewards, what started as rare becomes everyone's role 3 months of grinding for a 4-fig drop from a 12-month role system is not worth your time > they keep introducing new roles : Billions started with OG roles then ambassador program then presale then super OG each new layer was extraction not reward legitimate projects rarely add new contribution layers, they deepen existing ones > keep changing terms : this is the single loudest alarm tokenomics revealed weeks before TGE after a year of contributions terms changed without community input this happened with billions and it will happen again somewhere else > low quality contributors being attracted : if the Discord is full of people posting AI-generated art and GM messages the project is not filtering for real contributors real projects attract real builders and educators you are judged by the company your project keeps ----------- the billions network checklist failure: - $30M raised coinbase backed - all green flags on paper - but tokenomics revealed only weeks before TGE - kept adding more roles and campaigns for a year - changed terms without community input the warning signs were there, most people just didn't know what to look for ----------- no role system is perfect but these signals combined give you a real filter evaluate the system before you commit the time along with that you do need to choose right projects as well (check the quoted post for that) which project's role system do you think was the fairest you've ever seen?