[Temp-Check] - Give Incentives to Solve Voters Apathy

Could be wrong here, but airdrops for delegation or voting seem like transparently the wrong sort of incentives to get the behavior weā€™d want to see.

Why? The majority of users will do the exact minimum to secure the bag.

What do we get?

For delegation: more day-one delegation without regard for actual affinity or alignment and zero follow-up. We end up right back where we were, with the massive distortions in distribution.

For ā€˜participationā€™: spam


(Iā€™d guess that a lot of the spam participation to date has been in anticipation of such an airdrop.)

For voting: a ton of noise in vote outcomes, again because people will do the minimum: vote (YEA, probably) without reading the proposal

Itā€™s not simple participation you want to incentivize ā€“ itā€™s quality participation by a broad, informed citizenry. Incentivization of some sort is probably in order, but achieving that sort of participation is probably more of a slow grind, facilitated by structural changes (in the vein of what @raho proposes here) and, of course, effectively demonstrating that participation in governance is worth it.

You canā€™t invoke that Munger quote without actually thinking about where your incentives will lead.

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