3 days for suggestions on this matter, then Notionaldao will bring it to the chain for a vote, following the spirit and intent of this proposal, unless we get feedback that indicates that the mandated discussion on this forum should last for less than or greater than three days.
Proposal Text
Vote YES to require that governance proposals be posted to the cosmos hub forum (https://forum.cosmos.network) for a minimum of three days before being submitted to the chain for a vote. Urgent software related proposals do not need to use this path. IBC client update proposals do not need to use this path. This requirement should be enforced through the use of NoWithVeto on proposals that have been put on-chain without a minimum of three days waiting period on forum.cosmos.network. This proposal amends proposal 75, and expands the applicable scope of NoWithVeto to include proposals that have not been discussed on forum.cosmos.network.
Vote NO to reject a three day mandatory discussion period on forum.cosmos.network.
Vote ABSTAIN to express no interest in the matter.
Vote NOWITHVETO to cause the depositors to lose their deposit on this proposal and contribute to a failure threshold that is triggered when nwv hits 1/3rd.
My only issue is the language with this that says it mandates a veto on anything that doesnât follow this rule. As we saw on osmosis, itâs hard to get everyone to follow through with that. Things that arenât enforceable on chain and have to be enforced socially through governance are hard to maintain consistently long term.
Can we get validators to follow through with a veto when itâs technically warranted from this prop?
Should this prop pass, would validators who didnât agree to this prop be expected to vote for veto when this situation arises?
Is it better to just say it should be a NO?
Prior discusion should always happen, but the enforcement of not following this social norm is a hard question.
I prefer veto, but I think that at least form my perspective itâs likely best to get some more feedback from the community.
Iâve no interest in defining penalties for anyone-- not validators or delegators, for failing to vote in a certain manner, so not sure how this one gets enforced (but if the hub passes it, it is ratified as law, and is not merely lore on a forum that doesnât even exist on chain or passed around twitter).
My personal motivation behind osmo 199 was to remove one type of lore that surrounded Osmosis governance.
consider:
if ___ is a rule, it ought to be a rule and the community (and no one else) ought to decide that ____ is a rule.
also consider:
rules that are used in making governance decisions should not be lore. they should be rules passed by governance.
we recently ran a survey of our delegators at Notional. The results of that survey indicate that following Thyborgâs advice in this matter would go against their wishes: notional delegators overwhelmingly choose notional because they want us to be opinionated.
One time I asked the community and our delegators if we should abstain on all props except those that we think are most important.
The feedback was abundantly clear: our deleagators wish for us to vote, and to do so in an opinionated manner.
I agree with the spirit of this proposal. I would ideally like to have it implemented as part of a larger âgovernance best practicesâ framework, which would include things like the use of NWV, conflict of interests etc.
I agree with the formalization on-chain of the governance procedure.
Even if this procedure was already largely formalized by adoption, it is clear due to the latest proposal, that add formalization on-chain is needed.
I donât think it is necessary to add that the proposal that doesnât follow this iter will be punished with NWV.
Because Prop75 is about to pass and Prop 75 says that No with Veto is applied also to ''proposals that violates or encourages violation of the rules of engagement as currently set out by Cosmos Hub governance.â
So Prop75 already says that a proposal that violet the rules of engagement set by the Cosmos Hub will advise the use of NWV.
If Prop75 will pass, as it seems. This proposal simply has to set on-chain this new rule of engagement regarding the procedure of submitting a proposal on the Cosmos Hub.
Maybe a reference to Prop75 ( in case it is approved) can be added in this proposal, to warn especially newcomers of the consequences of not following the right procedure to the submission of the proposal.
So you are using a space reserved for the community to discuss a new proposal to shame me? Thatâs really unprofessional from a validator.
And you reached your lowest point today, I donât think that engaging with you at this point could add any value.
Iâm personally feel bad for all the community members that will enter this forum and see such behavior, it really shows immaturity.
And I kindly invite you to use a different space for this kind of accusations to respect not only me, but the Cosmos community that is coming here to contribute to a proposal and have a constructive discussion.
If we have to pute mandates on governance, than I also think that votes choices of all wallets and validators should be private and invisible to the public so no one is being shamed on social media for thier votes.
Was thinking about putting up a proposal to reducing the vote duration to 1 week AND asking that proposals go up on the forum for a week. However, Iâd support this proposal as a place to start, so donât block on me.
Iâd say there is one exception here, which would be an emergency upgrade in the event of a significant bug. In this case a post should go up on the forum at the same time as the proposal is made.
@Thyborg - I think itâs better to accumulate small proposals that collectively form a larger governance ârules of engagementâ (as mentioned in Prop 75) or constitution and this is a great start. The more dense and complicated a proposal gets, the more likely weâll get bogged down in endless discussions over the details.
This one is clear and straight to the point: 3 daysâ discussion on the forum is required. Itâs âunenforceableâ just like all signaling proposals, but the enforcement is supposed to come from the people signaling their agreement and personally committing to upholding it and introducing consequences for those who donât (via a burned deposit).
The most Iâd ask be added is an encouragement to use the forum tags, since they link to a telegram bot that will alert folks when a proposal hits âlast-callâ and is nearly ready to go on-chain.
I agree with @hxrts though - would prefer at least a week of discussion. 3 days is very short, especially noting personally that this post went up on a Saturday in my timezone and so the three days was mostly weekend!
Hey @lexa I just want to let you know I was thinking exactly the same thing about the discussion time.
How about I put in my calendar, something for this governance proposal for Wednesday of the coming week?
Maybe I try to hop into the Cosmos hub fireside chat on Wednesday just sort of explain the intent of this and I think itâs exactly that I totally agree that it should be smaller pieces we could even arrange them into something that can be read as a package.
Thanks to @hxrts for advice on disconnected commentary in these posts. Iâve removed some content here, to ensure that it stays on topic.
To @thyborg I wish to once again highlight that proposal 76 does not pose a conflict of interest for validators. Our delegators can always override if they disagree with our votes, and our delegators have delegated their votepower to us.
I agree with the general motive of this proposal. I do like to see community discussion prior to a proposal. I do worry about requesting a âno with vetoâ vote for proposals the are brought forward without the 3 day discussion. Can anyone think of props that may be more urgent and cannot wait for 3 days?
Fireside chat would be great! And agree with @MattAlexander about explicitly calling out the possibility of urgent upkeep. Worth putting it in writing even though itâs common sense.
Some people had contacted me and said that it wasnât enforceable bit after thinking about it I realized that the enforcement is actually in the hands of the community exactly where it should be.
