What is Hybrid Voting Power?
Hybrid voting power is an idea that combines voting power of Respect with Eden+Fractal delegate points explained in Delegate Voting Power.
This page is an early work in progress and may be updated soon.
Notes from Eden Fractal Brainstorming Sessions - add to the page about vlalendas and maybe cagendas and hybrid voting
Delegate Points
Delegate Voting Power with Cagendas
What do you think about splitting voting power between delegate points and respect points?
I think this feature may help make Eden Fractal more democratic and capable in the long term. also include the links I shared about democracy from Gavriel Shaw and Daniel Larimer in Eden Fractal Meeting 25. There are also tradeoffs of leaning more heavily into Eden+Fractal delegation that are worthy to consider carefully. I think it might be best to split voting power between respect and delegates, but am not sure…
What do you think about splitting voting power between delegate points and respect points?
50/50
Eden + Fractal
50% Eden and 50% Fractal
50% of voting power from eden elections and 50% of voting power from fractally consensus
I think it may be best to do this for Vlalendas. It also could be best for voting on proposals instead all voting power from delegation. I’m not sure….
Potential Downsides to leaning too much on Eden+Fractal delegates
- If we vote on proposals with only delegate points and not respect points, then what use do respect points have?
- There is a possibility of growing too fast with Eden+Fractal and diluting quality of delegates. I agree with Tadas’ points about this that we have weeks where current delegates can adapt if they see a big influx of people. I also appreciate that there is a high threshold to pass proposal in the current system (3/4 councils) and it’s possible for people to vote in delegates that will vote well while proposals are in a state of flux (not yet being approved by the council)
- Most organizations have a much slower rate of change in leadership. The faster rate of change has many benefits, but also could be hazardous with unexpected problems. We are trodding a new path. Most organizations allocate voting power via shares. The founding team allocates a significant portion of the shares for themselves. Other voting power is allocated to investors, which can change quickly but often stays the same for a while. These centralizing forces provide stability for the organization because it’s generally the same people who make decisions for a long time. Generally there are not many changes in power of who directs the organizations in traditional organizations.
- What if delegates don’t attend?
- Review my original notes about Eden+Fractal. I had some potential downsides there as well. I love the process, but want to make sure we don’t lean too heavily on it too fast. I think I had this saved in several different notes. Find these
What is best in the long-term?
I’m not sure….
What is best now?
1) We use a hybrid approach for Vlalendas where voting power is equally distributed between respect points and delegate points. For voting on proposals, we continue to use the current Eden+Fractal system of 1 delegate, 1 vote.
This enables us to experiment with two different methods. It makes Vlalendas more democratic than just using respect points, and it provides some solutions to the concerns above about being too reliant on delegation.
Then we can play it by ear. If we want to go full democracy, then we can make Vlalendas work entirely with delegate points and not respect points. If we want to provide more power to people who have been helping the community for a long time, then we could provide some voting power in voting on proposals. This could be 50/50 like Vlalendas, or we could decide different ratios. Like 60/40, 80/20, etc