P-33: Reduce Stewards Role in Governance

Authors: kempsterrrr

Summary

This proposal updates the DDIP process by removing the requirement for the majority of Stewards to comment on a proposal before it can be elevated to Snapshot.

If this proposal passes, once a proposal has been in draft for 5 days, only one Steward will need to support the proposal to elevate.

This is intended as an interim solution to unblock the current Governance Structures and welcomes further discussion and proposal on how to improve Governance.

Motivation

Governance of the DAO is an on-going experiment.

The last update to Governance introduced elected Stewards in an attempt to democratise elevated responsibilities in Governance. Whilst this served its purpose to a degree, sustaining this model has proved challenge and had the following impacts:

1. Proposal have been stuck in Governance for long periods of time
2. Stewards not involved in the day-to-day operation of the DAO have struggled to maintain sufficient context to perform their roles

This proposal aims to help us start addressing these challenges by unblocking the current process so we can elevate proposal faster

Scope of Work

This change is simple and only requires an update of the relevant Governance documentation in the incoming DAO Handbook - here is a PR to submit these changes if the proposal passes

Drawbacks

The main drawback is reducing sybil resistance in Governance by reducing the threshold needed to elevate votes to Snapshot.

Vote

Single choice voting where one CODE token equals one vote and whichever option has the most votes the the end successful assuming quorom of over 2% of CODE supply (200k votes).

If a draw, we optimistically default to For.

• For
• Against
• Abstain