I had carried the groundskeeper task for several terms, so I think I should share my thoughts here.
In my working period, the most requested task from community was being active on social channels and raise awareness of Grin. It is the reason I left Groundskeeper task, I am not an active person on social media, I think I cannot fulfill the job against community’s expectations.
When groundskeeper task introduced, it was rated 1000 Euro/ month with close to 50 working hours so hourly rate was approximately 20 Euro/hour. If someone is asking at 12 Euro/hour for the same job, it is not a price hike but a price reduction.
I find it kind of funny to criticize sending update posts to bitcointalk because I clearly remember Tromp asked me about posting the grin newsletter to bitcointalk. I did not have an account there so I opened one just solely for that purpose. If @cobragrin stopped posting updates there I am sure someone else will come two weeks later and ask why he is not posting at bitcointalk. It is clear thar not everyone in the community can be satisfied at the same time.
In almost every meeting I attended, discussion comes to a point that we need more man power and more developers on board. To attract more developers we need to show that Grin is not a dead project and to do that social media needs to be active. Ideal scenario is community feed itself and activity is formed naturally but we are not there yet. We need someone to catalyze activity, it is as simple as that.
It just does not make sense to me to diminish effort of someone doing good work. (Or do we have a secret agenda to keep low and accumulate more Grin at low price for a higher profit )