Staked Poll on Zcash Dev Fund Debate

[amiller]

I’m replying to a few comments in the other thread, so as not to continue cluttering up that thread with discussion about stake polling

@tromer

I’m all for experiments (it’s what I do for a living). They need to be constructed so that they don’t cause harm, with clear goals, and with follow-up analysis of what we’ve learned and what we can improve. For the many months since the staked-weighted petition was proposed and invoked, there has been no substantial discussion of any of the above by the petition’s advocates, and not for lack of trying — questions and critique have been consistently ignored or dismissed. So at what point do we just declare this experimental approach a failure?

These threads have been long, but I don’t think any of the criticisms have been dismissed, instead they’ve all been acknowledged as valid criticism. If there is really something that hasn’t been responded to yet, I promise I’ll answer. The answer may be “I don’t know”.

I’ve tried to be careful not to say this has been an experiment, because it hasn’t been designed as such. I consider it a personal project and proof of concept, and at this point also a kind of permissionlessness activism.

For what it’s worth, the discussion that has had the most resonance with me is that we should not present bar charts that include the weighted stake from this petition directly alongside the indicators like community advisory panel vote that have been more carefully designed.

So, I would be happy to join in calling for ECC not to present the output of this current stake poll mechanism as strong evidence of community sentiment.

@boxalex

but don’t introduce it a sudden out of nowhere in an ongoing voting process where a multi million budget is decided

I presented about this idea in June and the thread describing its current form is from August. I don’t understand the claims that this is sudden.