GIP: 77
title: Should the GnosisDAO add delegation & spam reduction?
author: Gnosis Guild
status: Draft
type: Meta
created: 2023-01-20
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Simple Summary
This proposal aims to introduce a number of changes to GnosisDAO’s governance setup which will:
- Reduce low-quality and spam proposals created in the GnosisDAO’s snapshot space.
- Make GnosisDAO’s influence distribution less opaque.
- Improve vote-weight utilization.
Abstract
Broadly, this proposal aims to introduce two changes:
- Modify the criteria for users to post proposals to the GnosisDAO’s snapshot space.
- Accounts holding ≥ 1 GNO can create a proposal (current).
- Add some trusted moderators that have the ability to remove posts that they deem to be low-quality. (new)
- Proposals with less than < 1,000 GNO of vote-weight cast
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orabstain
are filtered from the main view. (new)
- Improve delegation
- Improve the delegation UI inside of snapshot to make delegation much simpler and to give an overview of the current delegated vote-weight distribution.
- Add a two-year term limit to delegation, to avoid stagnation in the vote-weight distribution; GNO holders must periodically set their delegation, all delegations expire after two-years.
- Allow delegates to decline being delegated to / resign from delegation, negating any vote weight delegated to them.
- Allow GNO holders to delegate portions of their vote weight to multiple accounts.
- Allow for transitive delegation; If A delegates to B and B delegates to C, C inherits A’s vote weight.
- Allow delegates to optionally set a cap on the amount of vote weight delegated to them.
Motivation
Popularized by Compound Governor, delegation has proven to be an effective strategy for improving the vote-weight utilization in many DAOs; consolidating vote-weight in the hands of those who have the time and inclination to actively participate in governance by allowing users to delegate their vote weight to others.
Largely due to the constraints of calculating vote-weight on-chain, Compound and OZ Governor’s delegation is somewhat limited. GnosisDAO’s existing delegation strategy on Snapshot already improves on one of these limitations by allowing users to delegate their vote weight and also directly participate in any vote. If a user does not cast a vote, their vote weight will be applied to the vote cast by their delegate. If a user does cast a vote, their vote weight will not count towards their delegates vote weight in that proposal.
However, there is significant design-space to further improve on GnosisDAO’s delegation.
Specifically, we would like to introduce changes that:
- Reduce low-quality and spam proposals created in the GnosisDAO’s snapshot space.
- Make GnosisDAO’s influence distribution less opaque.
- Improve vote-weight utilization.
Another recent forum post also argues for delegation, along with suggesting compensation for delegates. To constrain scope, this proposal does not include delegate compensation. However, if this proposal is successful, and after observing the delegation setup in production, we will likely write a followup proposal to implement some form of delegate compensation.
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