CCIP-028 - Adjust the criteria for successful subreddit governance polls

Problem

We are currently using the default criteria for all governance polls, which says a poll passes if the Moons voting in favor represent over 50% of the participating moons and exceed the Decision Threshold.

However, this was the criteria meant for changes to Moons, but not necessarily governance of the subreddit, such as rule changes. This criteria is a very high bar because Moons should be difficult to change, but isn’t necessarily the best for subreddit governance. For example, should the poll about live posts with 83% approval have failed? Conversely, in a contentious situation like the poll on the daily discussion, should a poll with record breaking 12.9 million moons but only 52% approval be successful?

Solution

We should adopt new criteria for successful subreddit governance polls:

• 2/3^rds supermajority (66.6…%) of participating moons voting in favor
• 50% of the Decision Threshold voting in favor
• At least 1,000 votes

This will treat subreddit governance polls differently from Moons governance polls, which will retain the same criteria they currently use. Moons governance polls are ones which change Moons themselves, such as karma weight, membership prices, or the distribution (CCIPs 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, and 27). These are typically things only the admins can change. Subreddit governance polls are ones which change how the subreddit operates and are things the mods can change (CCIPs 5, 8, 12, 17, 19, 21, 26, and 28)

Reasoning

These values were chosen based on historical voting data here.

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When considering governance, we want to set criteria that ensures polls pass when they have enough support, but not require so much support that we end up with gridlock where nothing can pass. The Decision Threshold, or quorum, should be set so that a sufficient number of voters are present and a poll is not sneaked through without the majority knowing. Similarly, quorum should not be unreachable where you are gridlocked from passing any polls.

I chose these figures because the low approval requirement and high participation requirement of the current systems are leading to good polls failing. Polls which achieve over 2/3^rds support are popular enough that they should be implemented and should not require and artificially high quorum. However we do not want controversial 50/50 polls to pass, even if they do have high participation.

The quorum requirements have been linked to the Decision Threshold because it dynamically adjusts according to the amount of moons in circulation. The number of votes was increased from 500 to 1,000 based on community feedback in ccmeta.

Thank you for reading and let me know if you have any questions or concerns

Original ccmeta post: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrencyMeta/comments/sof2sg/proposal_adjust_the_criteria_for_successful/

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