Hello,
I'm a french Polkadot ambassador. I follow daily Polkadot OpenGov. It's an importance place for community but I think we must think about another voting system.
Why ?
There are two issues in the Polkadot governance:
— We can't use DOT staking in nomination pool, DOT staking a liquid staking protocol or DOT locked for crowdloan. So, a lot of community members can't vote for governance (small holders use often liquid staking or nomination pool).
— Whales are too much voting power. We saw in several votes a decision taken by 1 whale in fact...
We must find solutions for these two issues
— All DOT must be used to calculate voting power
— we can try another system to calculate voting power:
(1) on chain reputation system with Soulbound Tokens
(2) voting power calculation which favors small holders (for example less than 100 DOT: x50 - 101-500: X20 -500-1000: x10…). But this bonus could be used only with verified account to avoid bots.
(3) quadratic voting: For example Token holders can used their voting power only once or twice during a decision period (28 days). Token holders wil vote for the most important proposals for them. Quadratic voting put another game theory in Polkadot governance.
it's just some ideas to improve OpenGov. It's an awesome tool for Polkadot community but currently there are several barriers and a lot of community members are only powerless witness. OpenGov is here for all community members.