This is a sound point. I am going to build on this. I do not foresee a scenario where an Index Coop community member receives a 0.5 or 1 score on the S&BD efforts.
My general view is: If the methodologist is a community contributor already, then it is better Index Coop does the S&BD work and the methodologist gets a donut for the S&BD score. That said if the community member wants to work on S&BD - great, they get paid contributor rewards.
I believe this will be the general consensus. I may point out, although the frame work contains the option, I don’t see Index Coop agreeing with the methodologist who proposes 0.5 or 1 for S&BD. Thus, the framework exists but the probability of a community member getting something other than zero for S&BD work is incredibly low. Even if Sassano was to do it, I am still of the opinion he can get paid in Community Rewards - it just might be a lot. That would be my view.