Community Sentiment Polling Results (NU4) and draft ZIP 1014

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@daira

An alternative name would be “Monthly Funding Cap”, if that would be help to clarify further.

@daira @dontbeevil I’m in agreement with changing the wording to “Monthly Funding Cap” and would be happy to open up a PR for that on ZIP 1014. I was somewhat concerned that @daira/@gtank may want to keep that ZIP as it exists for historical preservation, but if y’all don’t mind I’d rather do that (likewise with the “audited” wording @zooko, which I can open a PR for as well). Then everyone can have the latest version of the ZIP to read through before the poll.

@daira

“The Funding Target SHALL NOT be changed other than by unanimous agreement of ZF, ECC, and the majority vote of the Community Panel.” This agreement could be highly difficult to achieve.

@daira I guess it’s a matter of personal opinion/speculation, but if the community votes for a cap I for one don’t think it would be difficult to change the cap amount immediately after the ZIP is active/before NU4 activation. In the scenario where the largest slice is 50% the current price of ZEC would have to be 2x to reach the cap, and again I suspect that could be resolved between now and NU4 activation.

@joshs

Did your position on taking time to explore new ideas change since this agreement with Zooko in December?

Nope my position hasn’t changed; as far as I can tell the poll/ZIP incorporates ideas that were discussed during the initial proposal/polling period.

@joshs

My personal perspective and recent comment on funding levels for ECC activities shouldn’t be confused with the ECC stance on a USD-based cap. They are different things. My apologies for causing confusion on that matter. Thanks Josh.

Thanks for clarifying that it’s your personal position @joshs, I appreciate it. Given that, I’d like to reiterate a desire to see detailed reasoning from the ECC on why my proposed solution to the employee incentive issue is not tenable; I suspect it would make many community members rethink their position on the cap.

@aristarchus @zooko thanks for your feedback on the poll. I completely agree about the wording choice being critical to neutrality of the poll and the Foundation will take your suggestions into account before publishing the final poll next week. I’ve also received private feedback that there should be opportunities to vote “approve of any option” on more of the questions, which the Foundation plans on taking into account.

Note that there are some formatting restrictions in what can be posted within Helios ballot questions (no line breaks or hyperlinks, for example) which also inform how the questions should be constructed/presented. And FWIW the suggested wording on these questions has already been greatly informed by community feedback (e.g. this comment from @mhluongo ) and the Foundation takes concerns around anchoring and bias very seriously.