Proposal for a Community + Coin Holder Funding Model

To date, Zcash has never used voting for governance. It has used polls in the past to gather sentiment, but they were used to inform decisions, not make them. Nothing has changed.

I believe we’ve all been consistent in using the word “poll” in wording and have been clear that these are sentiment-gathering tools, not formal voting.

See the polling thread the ZF’s ZCAP announcement, @aquietinvestor’s title of the coin holder poll, etc.

Here is the difference between the two:

I agree that using the word “vote” can be confusing. But casting a vote in a poll, and holding a vote are two different things.