I will be voting “For”.
Tally has been huge in regards to both Arbitrum itself and the broad governance space. I think that anything we can do to make projects like Tally or Snapshot better is a win-win, as it should improve our governance goals as well.
Specific to the proposal:
- All the improvements to the proposal process are great! I think they address a lot of the clunkiness of an on-chain voting system, especially if there is the ability to remove the old proposals. As well as just generally better UI when it comes to understanding what phase these proposals all in one place.
- I’m really excited about the ‘flexible voting’ piece. Shielding voting would be great if it can be done, as I think there is support for that DAO-wide. As well as just generally anyway that makes voting easier. Not super specific to ARB, but of smaller DAOs that have issues where their token is split across chains and it’s difficult to do these types of votes if they are stuck to 1 chain
- Highlighting Delegate Contributions - I think this is a good idea, as right now it’s really tough to see who is actually an active delegate versus just who has a lot of voting power. My only add would be I think the ability to sort and filter will be important here, if not already in the plans.
- I also support the two research iniatives. I think they hit on two of the more impactful unsolved voting problems DAOs face today.
A question however - Will the cancel function be cut-off at a certain point of the proposal? i.e., only before voting started? I see a lot of value in this, but I also know we ran into issues of proposers deleting Snapshot votes that already started. I see the value in being able to cancel once something starts (incase there is an error found by the community not found by the proposer) but I think I’d like to see this functionality where it doesn’t get deleted but moved to a specific ‘canceled proposals’ section. If possible of course. I think there is value in cleaning up the main voting page but also value in having the full history.
And as a final comment, I think that even though these projects are specific to Arbitrum I would like to see these types of things be expanded out to other DAOs. I did see the comment that this is a Arb-specific item due to the way our governance works, however my hope is that some of these things (like say shielded voting and canceling erroneous proposals) could be expanded to all projects. Whether Arbitrum has to front that entire bill or not, I think the greater DAO space can benefit from things like this and I’d rather see the broad benefit subsidized by Arbitrum then not see it implemented at all. Any improvement system-wide should benefit Arbitrm in the long run.