It´s just funny, that no one invited or forced Rick to come here into this Thread, he was not even in the context of the discussion.
Then he got nervous when I asked to have transparency and release the logs to verify who & when saw, and like this directly or indirectly supported the ugly offensive post of @RobJF shared in the headline of this Thread. He claimed such a release of information would infringe on his privacy (note the forum.cardano.org server is in the US, no GDPR yet), but admitted he was reading it.
Upon request of @ishleh I have shared the story of the Watchdogs, our origin & history from the Guardians of Cardano.
Then he shared his opinion “The whole Guardians effort was just a smoke screen”, “Guardians effort was just noise”, which was totally false.
Now suddenly he tells me “You are harassing me” and “Stay away from me on this forum” and I will be reported if I post on his threads on this forum.
So I guess I can´t write questions anymore for Cardano Effect (sponsored by IOHK)? Well last time I did add 20+ questions (https://www.reddit.com/r/thecardanoeffect/comments/a32no2/john_oconnor_director_of_african_operations_for/) and the softest & least interesting one was asked by him in the end.
The real issue I see is while IOHK does have a very professional & strict hiring capability (a big achievement of their HR director), that allowed for them to build a worldclass organization, this is not the case with all the Cardano Community Roles.
I think it´s very dangerous to give away fancy titles like “Cardano Ambassador”, without such high quality hiring capability. Imagine people putting this on their LinkedIn Profile and then caught acting like a few of them here damaging the brand. It would be more appropriate to have the title as “Community Worker” and have the “Cardano Ambassador” title to be earned over a period of time following good service and spotless reputation.
I think the most important thing for the Cardano Foundation would be to reach out to IOHKs HR Director for help and hire very professional, highly skilled, top talent Community Managers with proven successful career to strengthen & support the current Community Management Team and let us recognize their own identity & voice, which should drive things for the better and quickly & efficiently intervene in such situations.
It would be good to have this hiring before the Cardano Ambassador / Community Worker and the Cardano Hubs programs are fully rolled out, actually before the working process starts on them.
IMO currently they struggle and fall apart in many areas, while their “weakness” is an opportunity for others to exploit. It really feels now like they are not in control, rather “run by” some of the Ambassadors. The title of this Thread by @Mihori is very accurate in this context.
Let´s put also one more thing in line with the statement from @Eystein_Hansen. The Watchdogs are not looking for positions in the Ecosytem, we want to enjoy independence (but more will come once we finish with our mission statement, governance protocol and may officially kick off). We have even created a separate movement and resigned from the opportunity, after it was leaked at Plutusfest that the Cardano Foundation is thinking to put one of the Guardians of Cardano on the Board. See that story here: https://forum.cardano.org/t/cardano-social-council-introduction