Dear community,
In my humble opinion one of our main challenges for the near future will be to become a truly decentralised network. With this post I would like to bring forward an idea to move into that direction. I look forward to an open and engaging discussion.
Some very important decisions (that affect the whole network) are currently undertaken by a small group of people: the council. Specifically, the council members currently have full control over motions and tips. Yes, depending on the type of motion, the community will vote next through a referendum but that is not the case for all motions (proposal approvals for example).
The concept of the council was called into being to represent the non-active voters in our community. Under the current system the council actually represents the whole community, going far beyond its original purpose and creating a centralisation of power and decision bottleneck. I would like to bring forward a new approach that limits council vote importance to represent only the non-active community members and at the same time allows active community members to cast their vote directly.
This approach entails opening up motion and tip votes to all KSM holders while simultaneously dynamically adjusting the council vote importance based on recent historic community voter turnout for motions and tips respectively.
Concretely, this would entail calculating a moving average of community voter turnout over the last X periods for tips and motions respectively.
The council vote weight/importance for the current tips would then be
100% - community_voter_turnout_moving_average_tips
and
100% - community_voter_turnout_moving_average_motions
for current motions.
There are multiple ways to calculate voter turnout. I will present a few that I can think of right now and leave it up to the community discussion to discuss them (or potentially extend the list).
In the case of little community involvement in the form of votes for tips and motions, the council vote weight will remain close to 100% (status quo).
In the case of more community votes, the council powers would be reduced proportionately.
With this approach, the council powers would be limited to representing only the non-active voters in our community which should make for a more inclusive and democratic network.