So I'm not trying to take your thunder and shill my own post
I absolutely agree. Hive users shouldn't be expected to know the valuation of proposals, we should have a team of experts or "hive auditors" with no interest to the proposal to tell us. They would have their own reputation and be cycled to ensure minimal interest/corruption. There needs to be hive jobs paid by the DHF but first a dev needs to make a working front end to manage the roles.
I had an idea to make a proposal to hire another Howo. I never posted it but would like to share it with you. Are you in Bro chat or on discord?
I have a running list going of other strong hive users who see a huge material weakness in the current system. For me, it means I can't buy much more Hive because I think many new potential stakeholders would see this weakness.
"The devs that can are more often then not friends with the dev whose work is being judged and they dont want their friend to lose money or they have what id call "colleague solidarity" so they keep their mouths shut and focus on their own stuff." this is a sad truth, and way to really call it out! Love it, but these same devs need to understand that they are huge stakeholders too, we're not trying to "shit" on them but it's just an honest truth. They should be all in support of the proposal system.
It's the key to sustainability on hive and it's up to us to make the system not able to be exploited. We can't complain because people exploit the system rather we should encourage that, it shows us the weaknesses and gaps we need to close.