# PUP-12: Inflation Stop-Gap Proposal: Double Trouble **URL:** https://forum.pokt.network/t/pup-12-inflation-stop-gap-proposal-double-trouble/2011 **Category:** Parameters **Tags:** overwritten **Created:** [January 24, 2022, 2:53am UTC](https://forum.pokt.network/t/pup-12-inflation-stop-gap-proposal-double-trouble/2011 "2022-01-24T02:53:58Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 29
### Author: ![shimanchu](https://forum.pokt.network/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@shimanchu](https://forum.pokt.network/u/shimanchu) #### Post date: [January 25, 2022, 8:44am UTC](https://forum.pokt.network/t/pup-12-inflation-stop-gap-proposal-double-trouble/2011/29 "2022-01-25T08:44:08Z")
Well, I’m pretty sure that a sudden slashing of rewards would pretty much kill node runner and staker enthusiasm, precipitate a massive exodus from the community, and welcome a downward death spiral in token price benefiting absolutely no one. Furthermore, a sudden increase in DAO appropriations in the wake of this would be viewed with a jaundiced eye by the recently disenfranchised node runners. This project was really looking great and WAGMI sounded like such a well measured and responsible path to fiscal responsibility. Why oh why the sudden turn in strategy and new trajectory headed for a cliff in the popular opinion of your community members? Markets do not like sudden and irrevocable change and they react dramatically and frequently irreparably. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.pokt.network/t/pup-12-inflation-stop-gap-proposal-double-trouble/2011)._