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I would argue that this kinda makes the exercise a failure. How do you think it would be better improved for the actual “coin holders” vote as it were?

I kind of agree, the amount of turn out for that poll was super low. The instructions were ambiguous about how to post your vote so that it’s counted in time, hence Sonya was relaying fhem. Sending z2z messages specifically to an address where we can count them is better. There’s a better discussion on how to do this here, using z2z address and incoming view key

Staked Poll on Zcash Dev Fund Debate

EDIT on 11/25/2019: This is not a Zcash Foundation thing. This is a thing that I, a person who works at ZF, proposed independently. I am against plutocracy, so I think staked votes are generally a terrible way to make binding decisions. But they’re a great source of information. As far as I know, nobody else plans to hold a staked poll. I might as well do it, and @boxalex volunteered to help! The poll will be open to anyone with ZEC. ZF’s guidance noted that the Foundation “is happy to consid…

We could still try that in the future! If it takes effort to carry out, turnout may still be low though.

And we still won’t know how to deal with whales coming in right before the buzzer, like what happened with Heartwood, and that also has happened in several folks DAO-like experiments. Maybe a good solution is for each coin to delay the deadline for a bit?