Depending on a proven experience or expertise of a proposer, the feasibility of the proposal can better be estimated. Since “identity management” is still not available, thus, when posting a proposal, at least the proposers community user name (particl forum) should be added. Interested voters can try to contact the proposer or they can rate his experience based on his previous contributions at the community forum.

For “official binding” votes, particl foundation is planning a voting concept based on staking voting (or something similar, integrated into “Partyman”). However, for merely “informal” votes, we can already use the existing voting platform on particl marketplace. So we should make clear, that votings on the particl marketplace are only meant as “non-binding” votes and maybe can be seen as preliminary vote before a proposal becomes accredited as a later binding vote. Thus we could make a distinction between two kind of votes: informal votes binding votes What do you think? Other comments and feedback on this?

When posting a proposal on particl marketplace, I suggest that every proposer should also create at Community Governance (Proposals) a new topic with it’s Proposal Titel and a self created Proposal-ID, which follows this convention: Proposal-ID and the Proposal Titel in the following format (YYMMDD): example: first proposal on March 5th 2021: 210305-01_My First Titel second proposal on March 5th 2021: 210305-02_My Second Titel So this Proposal-Format (ID+Titel) should be used as titel for the new topic (thread) where everybody can give feedback or ask questions related to the proposal to vote on. For the voting period the proposer would have to act as a kind of moderator and should be responsible for answering questions related to his proposal. Also we should make as many community members as possible aware of the new proposal. Thus, when posting a proposal, the proposer should also make an entry here: #new-proposal-list Once a new entry (reply) has been made in #new-proposal-list, we should forward this entry automatically to #general in Discord. By that also telegram or matrix users are becoming informed on the newly available proposal to vote for. However, the #new-proposal-list isn’t meant for discussions, it’s solely for information purposes of non-forum users. So, what do you think of that? Just leave a comment or up- / downvote this.

Staking Voting sounds interesting. I also have something similar in mind, since the owned staking rewards over a certain period typically would correspond closely to the real distribution of the overall staking coins during this period. If the owner of the staking rewards would accept to have their reward coins locked for this certain period of time, you could use only those limited number of locked reward coins for voting at the end of that period, while the principal underlaying larger number of staking coins are free to spend or to move.

So, dear community, let’s start the discussions onto this particl self-governance topics I hope the first topic to discuss 1-(J), is one of the more “easy” topics, because we already voted for the forum as self-governance communication platform, and now trying to figure out it’s pro&cons. At the very end of all those points to discuss (1-(J), … 14-(-C-)), there should be a kind of document as outcome, which describes a possible way to “govern” our community discussions. I will use therefore a dropbox paper, like dros has proposed as proposal template here. You can also see an example here. I personally, won’t post messages on self-governance on the discord community-proposal channel anymore. I made some screenshots up until the beginning of march, to document the previous discussions on discord, which can be found in the previous post. So please also give your feedback and replies exclusively on the forum, since postings on discord or telegram won’ t be forwarded to the forum anymore. Thanks for making this community a warm and welcome place in sharing your opinions on the possible future of a community driven, self-governing, decentralized, worldwide, private marketplace !