Let’s Play Optopics! 🐙
Optopics is an experimental Cagendas game mode that allows respected community members to propose, vote, and dynamically coordinate discussion topics during our events. This collaborative agenda game is designed to optimize our meeting time by providing a simple structure, facilitating more interactive conversations, and helping us focus on what’s most important to the community.
If this topic proposal is approved, we’ll play Optopics according to the following rules during this week’s Optimism Town Hall:
Game Rules
The game begins at 18:00 UTC at the Optimism Town Hall. The main dynamics of gameplay are oriented around suggesting topics, allocating votes on topics, and transitioning to different topics.
Suggesting and Voting on Topics
- Suggest topics: Starting at 17 UTC on Monday, respected community members can suggest discussion topics in the new Optimism Town Hall channel in the Optimism Fractal discord. The topic can be very simple, like a quick question or just a few words. The topic could also be more complex with detailed information and links. Feel free to suggest any topic related to Optimism Fractal or the Optimism Collective.
- Vote on Topics: A poll will be created in the Optimism Town Hall snapshot space by 18 UTC on Wednesday and all topics that were suggested in the Discord channel will be included as options. You can allocate your Respect votes across as many topics as you’d like to influence the community’s agenda and the votes are weighted quadratically. Participants can change their votes at any point before or during the Optimism Town Hall to reflect their current interests.
Moving to the Next Topic
During the event, respected participants can adjust their topic preferences in real-time to influence the discussion as the game progresses and move the group to the next topic with an optimistic topic transition system.
- Topic Transition Rules:
- Initiate Change: Any well respected community member (defined as having at least 100 Respect) can propose to switch topics by typing ‘next topic’ in the chat, triggering a one-minute countdown.
- Veto Option: Any other well respected member can veto this by typing ‘same topic’ within the minute. If vetoed, neither the proposer nor the vetoer can make the same motion for the current topic.
- Consensus Transition: If there’s no veto, the discussion moves to the next highest-ranked topic on Snapshot.
- Proposing New Topics: If at least 51% of well-respected members agree, a new topic can be introduced and discussed immediately. Approval can be indicated by thumbs-up from respected members in the chat.
You can learn more about Optopics in this introductory post and feel free to share any questions or comments in the discord chat. Curious to hear your thoughts!
