The following reflects the views of GMX’s Governance Committee, and is based on the combined research, evaluation, consensus, and ideation of various committee members.
Thanks @DePolis for your proposal,
DePolis’s proposition aims to serve a niche in gathering sentiment amongst large number of parties in forums, like a ‘temperature check’ for opinions. It’s functionality inspired by Polis, has the ability to create metrics from the responses by members in the community. It’s unique stand point is it’s lightweight solution to aggregate large number of participants and channel it to a report which provides insights on how gauging sentiment.
However at this time, we believe the proposal may need to undergo changes, and possibly the development of a pilot through Dev Tooling Domain Allocator Offerings S3 Initiative to recognise DAO-specific pain points, and whether there’s necessarily a fit for this within a DAO forum setting. Additionally existing solutions like Polis, already simplify the process as mentioned with the Gitcoin process. DePolis’s improvement is the ability to be compatible with EVM wallets and the proposed customisation surrounding reporting, voting time periods, moderation, and other configuration.
Based on the demonstration in the linked in the showcase from EthGlobal, the application also requires gas expense for the end user if they’re casting votes on statements, we insist a verification through signature solution, like existing solutions from snapshot.
We also feel there’s concerns with how the $5,000 ARB/USDC incentive program mechanism will work to prevent sybiling of activities within DePolis, what conversation outcomes will need to be done for rewards to be distributed? Very little information is given on this.
Overall, we are against this current proposal, but recommend this proposal undergo changes to create its own pilot and demonstrate its use case amongst small group, which will enable highlighting any user frictions, identify who is the suitable target audience, and provide a better end product by searching how the community would utilise it.