I like the idea of decentralised governance to play a part in things, even if it’s just non-binding votes to show how tge community feels about certain issues.
Fairness is a massive challenge though. We could get back to the whole ‘proof of unique human’ thing, which doesn’t have any good solution.
Voting based on token holdings is good in that those with skin-in-the-game are voting, but it is also excluding those who can’t afford sufficient tokens.
Maybe a multi-pronged system could work, with different types of voter with different weightings, e.g.
- token holder votes (maybe with the majority of vote weight coming from time-held and activity, rather than pure balance?)
- Dev votes, for people who have demonstrably contributed to apps that work on Autonomi
- Donor votes, for addresses that have contributed funds to support development activity
- OG votes, for long-term members of the community
- MaidSafe team member votes
- Node votes; 1 vote per active node
- DOXXED supporter votes; for know real people who publicly support the network
Each of these has challenges to try to maximise fairness & prevent gaming, and getting the balance right wouldn’t be easy, and may not be possible in a completely decentralised way.
So, just throwing this out there to spur discussion, but I’d like to see some systems that enable voting in a way that can’t be gamed by the rich or devious… and I don’t know how plausible that is without resorting to centralised checks & balances.
For now, polls on the forum can play a role, and hopefully an equivalent will be made on-network in the future.