Agora Updates & Feedback thread

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Thank you @FractalVisions and @Oxytocin. Appreciate you both writing down such detailed thoughts (going to DM you to brainstorm more). This is fantastic feedback. Clearly lots more to do here, and we couldn’t agree more!

Overall, the problem of “how do we (a) surface and reward high-quality delegates and (b) also bring new voices to the ecosystem” seems to be the theme here, definitely what we’re looking to focus on for this next iteration of Optimism Agora.

@FractalVisions

it was a lot easier for people to continue delegating to the people who had the most tokens at the top of the search, and creating a very unfavorable an unfair advantage for other delegates within the governance

@Oxytocin

I worry that with the current system we will be encouraging new people entering the collective to delegate to the top ~20 delegates, snowballing their voting power. This could mean not only a significantly higher burden on those individual delegates, but a more difficult fight for new Delegates to acquire visibility and power

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Going to summarize some of the feedback, please keep me honest on whether I’ve covered it all!

@FractalVisions

Discoverability is lacking heavily.

Partial search results in blank page error.

• top of our mind too, added. Right now it’s ‘exact’ match only. We’re starting to investigate fuzzy search or partial search for the next iteration.

@FractalVisions

activity here on the discourse forums or link to their account on the OP Gov forums from Agora

@FractalVisions

integrating the badges here on the forums with the delegates profile on Agora as well to show their involvement and get a good idea if the person you are delegating too is active or not

@Oxytocin

• Introduce the option to filter by delegate age (only allow delegates that have voted for either more or less than x months)
• Maybe allow citizen badgeholders to select ‘recommended delegates’ that currently have low delegation, but might be worth highlighting. This is my favourite idea, as it gives a further tie to the bicameral system, makes the selections flexible, and allows some critical curation.

• these are great, added. Would love to brainstorm more on a few other ways to filter and sort for quality delegates. Let me know if any other ideas come to mind!

@Oxytocin

Allow delegates with more than x% supply to hide their delegation from results. This action could be rewarded in someway to encourage it on active delegates, or could be automatically enforced after a threshold is reached.

• This idea of adding in incentives to “recluse” one’s self from further delegation is interesting. It would certainly be a more complicated feature (as it begs the question of what parameters), but I look forward to see more of discussion of this direction by the community.

Generally speaking, we are starting to look different ways to “filter” and “sort”, and this is all with the goal of better surfacing high-quality delegates. Some other ideas we’ve heard and gathered are:

• Voting streaks
• Last 6mo voting participation
• Filter based on their areas of interest (inspired by @diligit’s post)
• Filter based on their role

Very possible I’ve missed parts or misinterpreted wording, please don’t hesitate to correct me

Excited to keep jamming on this and figure out the next iteration of Agora for Optimism