On Sun, 2021-06-06 at 18:51 -0700, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 6:41 PM ais523 via agora-discussion > <agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > Based on how much Aris is trying to hoover up all the Voting Cards > > recently: Hey, Agora, you should probably make proposal 8565 > > Democratic. > > Alternatively, you could vote for it! A free black ribbon and possibly > other prizes await, but only if it passes! > > Besides, if we make all the interesting proposals democratic the first > anyone actually tries to use extra votes, what's the point of having > extra votes? In that case, we may as well repeal them, given that it's > been like a year and no one has given them any significant use at all > (beyond Jason nabbing some cash prizes). I will note that I make no > warranty whatsoever that this paragraph contained a good argument.
There were plenty of extra-voting-power-dump scams pulled off last time we had an easy way to make proposals Democratic. The trick is to make it non-obvious that you're planning it, both in terms of planning to dump voting power, and in terms of which proposal you're planning to dump the voting power onto. Generally speaking, you would force through a proposal that contained an intentional loophole allowing a win, as opposed to a proposal that outright obviously gave you the win. (I was opposed to the original repeal of Support Democracy because it made this kind of scam/tactic much less interesting.) Trying to make extra votes work is hard, though; either they break the game, or they do nothing, with not much in between. I think they worked better when they were tied to an asset that also had more common uses than boosting voting power, so it was less obvious when someone was stockpiling them for scam purposes. -- ais523
