# Community Oversight Member Elections: Meet the Candidates **URL:** \ **Category:** AADAO\ **Created:** [April 22, 2024, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/community-oversight-member-elections-meet-the-candidates/13714 "2024-04-22T16:59:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 89
**Author:** ![neshtedle](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.cosmos.network/neshtedle/32/4287_2.png) [@neshtedle](https://forum.cosmos.network/u/neshtedle)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2024, 4:26am UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/community-oversight-member-elections-meet-the-candidates/13714/89 "2024-05-14T04:26:38Z")
Thank you for your respectful answer & tone! I will bring it up to the Governance Lead & the team and certainly we would like to collect more feedback on the matter from the community before passing on to the final decisions. I want to notify you that we had an abstain policy for the respective proposals indicating creation/continuation of the mandate - even though I still believe that validators as community stewards should be able to approve or veto creation of such entities whatever the affiliation - as soon as there is no direct financial incentive. This case is - to my mind - is more complicated than that. But a lot of things in governance and policies are broken to this present moment unfortunately. We have no concept of “ethical” running for governance - nothing stops a candidate or a project seeking community funds, potential consumer chain to go into DMs of their validator acquaintances & ask for support. We can only vouch for validators to act independently and in unbiased way following their “validator constitutions”. Mind you, C1 even has one - unfortunately nothing on community elections in particular but we narrowed down a lot on the community funding 😃 Anyways, will be happy to see what people think -unlike me, community has the power to influence decision making of validators! --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/community-oversight-member-elections-meet-the-candidates/13714)._