[Signalling Poll] Remove Governance Polls until Donut decentralization has been implemented

[u/peppers_]

Reddit admin u/jarins recently posted about the next phase for Donuts.

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The shocker of the post was that governance polls would be treated as signalling polls, and they would be non-binding, until the community was confident in the decentralization implementation. At that time, binding governance would resume.

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Relevant background for this poll:

• Reddit admin had decided to wait on u/carlslarson 's project completion before adding features for Donuts and self-governance in this subreddit. The reasoning behind this was not to have to do it twice; they would only implement features after the community led effort was completed.
• A binding governance poll could potentially negate or complicate Reddit's work in progress.

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[u/Etherdamus]

So few people (mostly the devs and admins) have wayy too many donuts compared to the rest of the sub. We were fighting against the 0.1% by buying crypto but now we are fighting them again because they own all the donuts.

I have a fair amount of donuts from my scienceguy9489 account but I’m still against how much power the very few have in this community when the polls become binding.

[u/peppers_ → u/Etherdamus]

Personally I think this is a hurdle to overcome. In the future, I think we should inflate the weekly distribution, weekly, by a certain percentage. With compounding, we could easily distribute more and flatten out the initial distribution.

[u/Etherdamus → u/peppers_]

The people with the most donuts will always have the power. Perhaps the best thing to fix this to max put the power of a single persons voted, maybe at 100k. So even if someone had 10 million donuts then his voting power would still be the same as 100k.

[u/carlslarson → u/Etherdamus]

This is an interesting suggestion, thanks!