Why is there so little information about weighted voting, what it is, how can anyone benefit from it, etc. In fact, we came to realize almost no one knows about it. What is the general consensus for that topic in Cosmos?
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Really interesting question! Iâve wondered this too!
Iâve only seen it used once or twice in practice, I think.
hot take :
i guess overall validators donât really want the information about it being fully democratised cause if pleb pressure push them to use it more frequently,
they would have to vote against their believes and âcentralizedâ wishes on many proposals.
(but i may have misunderstood what weighted voting is, in that case, happy to be corrected)
From what I have understood allows âweighted votingâ to vote both on Yes and No at the same time, but saying; for X% of my voting power I vote Yes and for (100-X)% of my voting power I vote No.
That is in essence a good solution if you consult your delegators and give them a vote in certain proposals, whereas you can either choose to go with the majority or do a weighted vote as a validator while listening to your delegators.
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The difficulty is to understand how to accurately translate feedback into vote-split percentage.
Super confused about this lol. Why would you vote both yes and no? As an alternative to abstain? The entire purpose of governance is to reach a decision so having indecisiveness as an input to that process seems unhelpful.
Delegators can already override their validatorâs votes. There is no reason for a validator to use weighted voting to comply with delegatorâs wishes
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I tend to agree, which is why it looks like such a baffling thing to include in the system. It feels like such an admin-heavy and unhelpful addition to the gov process if each validator starts polling their delegators to decide how the validator should voteâŚanyone tuned in enough to vote on a validator poll is probably tuned in enough to actually vote with their own ATOM.
It feels like something that could become interesting and applicable if, say, Abstain ceased to exist. Or if delegators didnât have the ability to override validators as-is. I wonder if itâs used more in any other ecosystem chains with different gov norms.
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wonder if the overriding function has the same outcome than a weighted vote when letâs say 80% of your delegators are non voters
Probably not the same outcome, but if those 80% are non-voters, how would their opinion influence a validator choosing to do a weighted vote?
What distinguishes a ânon voterâ who just doesnât care from a ânon voterâ who cares but isnât voting? And how would a validator offering weighted voting be more persuasive to that non voter than participating in governance directly?
hello lexa,
i was wondering more about the weight of the real abstention (non vote) on the final balance of power in these two cases.
and i have no answer about that as about your questions. no strong opinion.
maybe validators having no other abstention kind of vote than the weighted one would be more interested in conviction and pedagogy. donât know.
i may think of too much differences between a blank vote and and a non vote 
edit : anyway thatâs an interesting topic.
off topic - on my side i would be more interested to change consisting in modularizing the vote period vals/deleg than changing abstentions possibilities
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Yeah, but it becomes annoying if 50/50 weighted voting becomes the new AbstainâŚ
So an obligation to explain why you are voting something might be a better solution.
No explanation > not able to vote.
That would also counter empty âYesâ voted because it is easier to do so.
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