How are (non-network) fees calculated, and how is Realm itself governed?! [Support] [Docs] [Disclosure]

[kopeboy]

For example I noticed adding a comment on a vote incurs in an additional 0.0007 SOL fee every 100 characters. How is this determined and who's getting the (non-network) fee? For how long I can consider the comments on a proposal stored (by having paid this fee)?

Is Realm itself (its contracts, dev team, UI & off-chain services & infrastructure, etc.) governed by a realm? Shouldn't all of this made clear in the docs? Thank you

[asktree]

Hi @kopeboy, these are great questions. We track feedback in our discord, I made a feedback thread for you there.

The additional fees you're seeing, such as fees for voting or commenting, are all network fees -- there is a small cost for putting more data on-chain. Comments and proposals are stored forever.

There is a DAO for governance of the Realms program. I think it's this one: https://app.realms.today/dao/RCH

[kopeboy]

Thank you for the answers :)
Sorry but I never use Discord (too much noise, and how to find your thread in the future?) so I didn't follow up there.
I was asking because it seemed that fees had some arbitrary components (not only automatically calculated by the network), so is there a way to check myself in the programs code?