Immediate goal: host “Manifold Best Writeups 2022” on a Quadratic Funding system

Why implement QF?

• Could be good for consensus decisionmaking
  • Solicit community opinions
  • Choosing an offsite location
  • What features to work on next
  • Retro payments mechanism
  • Overall: we don’t know, it’s fairly underexplored in the wild!
• Cool factor
  • Could convince Vitalik and others to join/promote Manifold
  • Could get all kinds of EA awards on the Manifold platform
  • Manifold has the perfect audience for this
• Pretty simple mechanism

Decision points

• Fixed-pool QF vs scaling match pool
  • Fixed-pool: Simpler
  • Scaling match: Less deceptive? More subsidy for more important problems?
• Free response vs fixed choices by creator
  • Free response: Allows for open calls
  • Fixed choice: Prevents hijacking of the match pool
    • Could allow creator to moderate/remove options?

Devlog January 11, 2023

• Periodic reminder not to upgrade firebase-tools: 11.20.0 broke yarn deploy, fix was to downgrade to 11.17.0

Dev Considerations January 17, 2023

• naming: QF vs Qf vs QuadFund. Casing gets annoying to remember.
  • [x] Think all Qf & qf is better, with “Quadratic Funding” shown to others. Kill “QF”
• txn type: certId vs qfId vs just contractId
  • Can find certs vs qfs via qfId !== null
    • but could also have done category === "QFPayment" or category === "QFTip" etc
• Also in code: call it qf vs contract ?

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