Forum roadmap for discussion

rich · 9 October 2023 14:21

When we are able to work from first principles we can rethink much of the current orthodoxy in Substrate to encourage more participation, collaboration and productivity.

There is a path to developing a full bespoke integration between Discourse and Substrate via existing, custom and bespoke plugins.

Identity and permissions

Mint soulbound identities on Kabocha
Develop permissioning via nested NFTs
Token gated media
Burners to ease onboarding

On-chain triggers

We can create a far better flow and UX from onchain triggers that can then create topics and then from discourse to substrate - where we can make the process practically seamless between:

Discussion —>
Debate —>
Proposal —>
Proposal iteration —>
Push on chain —>

The ultimate aim with all of this is to bundle the whole flow into a unified ‘super-app’ contribution experience.

Relevant reading

github.com

stated-tech/Grants-Program/blob/master/applications/root.md

# Root - an on-chain decision-making, talent sourcing and collective creation system

- **Team Name:** [Polkassembly](https://www.polkassembly.io) / [stated.tech](http://www.stated.tech/) / [Decent Partners](https://decent.partners)
- **Payment Address:** 0xdf08f8fcd47d857b9e4ce69e06bf6e569969b229 (USDC)
- **[Level](https://github.com/w3f/Grants-Program/tree/master#level_slider-levels):** 3

## Project Overview :page_facing_up:

Root is a common good initiative which aims to tackle current issues with on-chain governance - low voter participation, lack of oversight and siloed knowledge, through a fun, collaborative and educational process that plants composable proposals (preferendums) that are nurtured by network contributors to grow decentralised teams from the ground up. 

We want to realise the potential of on-chain governance by enabling proposals and teams to be created, iterated and formed through our protocol that interacts directly on-chain, showing the power of "console-like" queries to CRUD proposals from IPFS directly to the blockchain.

The first version of our system is inspired by a cutting edge 18th century voting system known as [Borda Count](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borda_count). In fact, it will use a particular version of Modified Borda's Count (MBC) known as called ["Score Voting"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Score_voting) or "Range Voting" that allows voters to assign a numerical score to each proposal, typically on a scale of 0 to 10 or 0 to 100, instead of just approving or disapproving of each proposal. This allows voters to express a more nuanced preference for each proposal, rather than just a binary choice.

In Score Voting, each voter assigns a numerical score to each proposal, and the scores are tallied up to determine the winner. The proposal with the highest overall score is typically chosen as the winner. This system allows voters to express a more granular preference for each proposal, and it can be more effective at identifying the most widely supported proposal, even in cases where there is no clear consensus among voters.

Score Voting can also be modified to require that each voter allocate a total of 100 points across all the proposals, to ensure that each voter is submitting a complete preference ranking. This is sometimes called "100-point voting" or **"range normalization"**.

[Warren D. Smith](https://www.rangevoting.org/WarrenSmithPages/homepage/rangevote.pdf) and Jan Kok both independently proposed the idea of score voting in the early 2000s, and since then it has been the subject of much research and experimentation in the field of electoral systems.

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Future

We can also look to integrate mastodon, peertube and other activity pub / fediverse tools to make chat and media a part of the same UX, eg with this tight integration when a proposal went onchain, the UX would surface live chat under it for the duration it was in voting.

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Forum roadmap for discussion

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