**Introducing Optopics** Hello everyone! I'm thrilled to introduce **Optopics**, an innovative consensus game crafted to enrich our discussions at Optimism Town Hall. Optopics is a new Cagendas game mode that allows respected community members to propose, vote, and dynamically coordinate discussion topics during our events. Optopics leverages Respect to make community events more efficient, enjoyable, and productive. 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. It’s a fun way to organize events that taps into the wisdom of our community to more effectively grow Optimism Fractal and maximize our impact for the Optimism Collective. 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. While the original Cagendas game mode enables the community to choose one topic before events, Optopics allows participants to spread voting power across multiple discussion topics both before and during events. 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. Here’s how it works: ### 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 - **Topic Transition Rules:** 1. **Initiate Change:** Any member with at least 100 Respect can propose to switch topics by typing ‘next topic’ in the chat, triggering a one-minute countdown. 2. **Veto Option:** Any similarly 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. 3. **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 (with at least 100 Respect) agree, a new topic can be introduced and discussed immediately. Approval can be indicated by thumbs-up from respected members in the chat.

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Introduction

Speaker 1: Okay, so just two points of feedback is that Op-topics is a game mode of Cagendas, not a new Cagendas game. Right. And then there should also be a section about how this is different from the current form of Cagendas, that's also what Rosemary was asking as well. And one major reason why it's different is because Cagendas original game mode only has a gameplay before the event, whereas it has gameplay both before the event and during the event as well. and then I can also list out other benefits. But anyway, you're reading it, so feel free to add anything else there. I'm curious to hear your thoughts.

Benefits of Optopics

Speaker 2: All right, so when you're saying during the, the main part is how it can be applied during the event, because people who are voting who have not voted on either can also vote on the, during the event if they did not vote on a prior, correct?

Speaker 1: That's true, yeah.

Speaker 2: Okay, so that's another advantage. 'Cause gender is completely before, And this one over here is people who did not vote prior have the ability to vote during.

Speaker 1: Yeah.

Ease of Participation

Speaker 1: And then also another benefit of this too, and a unique aspect is that it's kind of like a step to go to Snapshot and then make a topic and you might feel like, oh, I have to make a good topic, I have to work on some of this.

Speaker 1: Whereas here's me in a Discord chat, it's gonna be conversational. So it's very easy for people to just post topics easily. So you're giving people the option, number one, to propose the topic beforehand, but many many people have not, and you have proven record that they have not. So this is giving them a second option to propose a topic. And it's making it easier, yeah, and it's doing it in the form of a chat rather than having to go out to somewhere else and make it like a whole.

Speaker 2: Correct. And they don't have to go out of their way, they're actually doing it while they're there. Which makes it simplified and easier access for them.

Speaker 1: Yeah, in the Discord chat. Right. So that actually is the biggest advantage. And then people could like ask and like come up with a topic together like somebody be like oh Maybe we should discuss this and then that could inspire me aspect Oh, yes discuss this about this right and also because of the up topics It's also creating more conversation within the community at the time of the event because everybody has the ability to vote on the actual topic

Welcoming Newcomers

Speaker 2: In other words like yeah, that's hand-hold right now Now, just say you have three people that have voted on Cajenas and you have three other people who are actually new to the community and they really didn't vote on Cajenas because number one, they're not aware of it, they have no clue on it. So this year, those three people can sit back and see exactly what the other three who know what they're doing and say, "Well, wait. Now I get it. So now there's a topic I would like and I'm going to add that to see." It may not be the top one, but at least they're given a floor to say the topic they would like to have at the time of the event?

Speaker 1: Well, the way that-- It's based on respect, granted, which means that their event won't go so high, but they still have the ability to do it, to suggest the topic. Mm-hmm. Right?

Respected Members Can Guide Topics

Speaker 2: Yeah. Granted, if it was somebody that was brand new, and you, and Tadas, and Rosemarie, and Hadlon suggest the topics because of your respect levels, your topics are going to go first. But at least you know that you hear their topics. Or you can actually say that's an awesome topic, and you four can agree that's a good topic. Let's go there.

Speaker 1: Yeah, so one of the rules, I don't know if you got to it, is that if over half of the well-respected community members decide to choose a topic, then they can just skip to that kind of stuff and know where it goes. So anybody can sort of close the topic during the meeting.

Interactive Gameplay

Speaker 2: OK, yeah, I'm getting there now. No, if you explain the exact difference between the two, because the way I'm getting it now, it's more interactive play and voting at the time of the event as opposed to prior to the event. But also more interactive prior to the event as well.

Speaker 2: Right, but I'm saying the main thing is the interactive-- because people that are new are not going to go prior. So this is more welcoming for new people, is what I'm trying to point out.

Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's also more like, for example, maybe Hanlon or Abraham or Rosemary, somebody who's there a lot, might like, they can be more expressive basically. Like they don't have to like, you know, it's kind of awkward, like raise your hand and be like, "Yeah, I think we should move on to the next topic. This is boring."

Speaker 1: But this just gives them a way to just quickly, easily say next topic.

Speaker 2: Right, and they can say next topic in the chat then, right? They don't have to say it out loud.

Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the rules.

Summary of Benefits

Speaker 2: It's good, but I think the main clarity and the main benefits, you've got to maybe put down a list of benefits why this is really good. And I know you have it written down, but I would do a benefit bullet point at the very end, like a quick summary of what you're trying to say, because this is longer and it's getting a little lost. But at the end, I would say, in overview, this is the main benefit for it. These are the main reasons why we're doing this. And it's also very, very welcome for newcomers. So that's the one thing I would add in there, because that makes it appear that you're trying something for a specific reason. I mean, reasons to get a better voting, yeah, but at the same time make newcomers welcome, because you get a lot of newcomers. And this is just literally an additional way to welcome them, that they have a voice.

Speaker 2: And I do like the octopus. And it's also encouraging a lot of participation with it too. So it's another benefit. And it also makes it more active in the chats before going into the event and kind of stealing a discussion like, "Hey, what are our base priorities? What should we discuss?" It makes it more like an active involvement. It's inviting more conversation and more participation. That's what it's doing and that's very good. So those are your benefits.

Comparison to Original Mode

Speaker 2: I think at the very end here, I'm reading it now here, but I like the idea of doing an overview summary at the end of the benefits. Well, there are some of the... Like I would say, because gender does... There's other ones... I know, but you see you're reading it, but you can say, because gender does this, this, and this. We want to take it one step up. I can say like the original or traditional or basic, I don't know, basic game mode or or like default game mode agendas does this, this, and this. But this game mode does this, this, and this.

Speaker 2: And we want to add the extra play feature where it's, and you give the reasons. It's more welcome for newcomers. It actually gives people who haven't had a chance to do a pre-vote. Many people are busy, so it's respecting their time that you're allowing them again to have that second option to vote some place, second or third. I think that part's good, and I think the bullet point, think would really help.

Refining the Draft

Speaker 1: Yeah because it's very long the explanation is long I would definitely do the build. I mean it needs to be long I understand but I think you should have a quick summary of what this all is. Just do a bullet point in the bottom or in the top or okay well I would probably do the bullet points on the top first. I think that you're further than you need to be so it ended at here. Okay. Is the way that I have it like sold out. But this is also still a draft too so for example I could get rid of like this part or this part. It's still fairly early but as far as and those are some benefits but I can also use some of the benefits that we came up with.

Speaker 2: Right. Because a lot of this I had written down like ideas and then I work with AI and AI generated but I have to like refine it down to what it's supposed to be.

Speaker 1: Well maybe you can define what we just said to what you had, maybe they can get a lot shorter. Which is why I'm recording this too, because there are some unique benefits that we can apply.

Speaker 2: Well I think the biggest thing is to show the difference between the two and why one enhances the other. That's the main thing. You know, Optopox is actually an enhancement on Cajenidus. But at the same time too though, the original game mode for Cajenidus is important and has its own benefits.

Advantages of Op-Topics

Speaker 1: Right, right. That's what I said, it's just an enhancement. work unless you have the original game and the game of [inaudible] >> That's why you have enhancement.

Speaker 2: To choose to play this game because there are sometimes you want to just say, "Hey, this is the topic for today." And with the original content, you can do that. You don't want to be able to have to like switch between topics all the time.

Speaker 2: And the other thing is if the topic that you initially decide to vote on, if it's discussed and agreed upon very quickly, then you need another topic.

Speaker 1: Yeah.

Speaker 2: So that's to continue a conversation, to continue the continue the medium going, this will actually provide that. So that's another advantage. So if you have a topic that you choose, and that topic is resolved within five minutes, you need your next topic. So this is helping you provide with your next topic, and so forth, and your topic after that or whatever. So I think that's good. And then it could be like a topic rotation, it can help that.

Conclusion

Speaker 2: Yeah, sure. I would like to see it after. Like I said, I think just the benefits and the comparison as to why the enhancement actually helps for everything. To me it's more welcoming, number one. And number two, it really makes it easier for people that have limited time. They don't have the time to stop in the middle of the week and vote on this. And they only have the time to make a meeting. during that meeting, they're getting the same access and ability to participate as if they had done it beforehand. So it's a feature of basically that's addressing and respecting people's time. That's what it is.

Speaker 2: Another thing about it too is that it organizes people's time better and gives people an easier way to express what they want to say during the meeting. Because a lot of times people want to discuss something and like you don't know how people feel about it. Like maybe somebody's like "oh I don't care that I'm sure that topic" maybe one person asks a question and then you answer it but then four other people are like "uh whatever". So it allows people to like very easily express their opinion in a way that's like smooth and easy for them to do and well structured

Speaker 2: And that makes it, and then another thing I have here too is that, like this game is going to start promptly at 18 UTC.

Speaker 1: Right. So like last week for example, I wanted to talk about another topic that was interesting, but it was another topic that was outside of the scope of agendas. So this is like you start right at 18 UTC, and then from then on it's up to the community to express what they want to talk about. So I don't want to talk too much about some different topic and so forth, and at any point if somebody is getting bored with something then they can say no. know but it's also kind of fun because if somebody says like next topic and somebody can veto it and I'd be like no same topic same topic right it goes by with what the community wants if the one person says video and for people say no we want to talk about this then the person's overruled.

Closing Thoughts

Speaker 2: Yes, it made sense. But I said it would make more sense if I saw the bullet points first and then the clarification below These are the benefits the benefits of clarified below. I think that would make more sense We're introduced you know introduce that you like what kind of way you have it you have introducing this and then you write the benefits So I would just enhance the benefits and make them a little bit clearer.

Speaker 1: Okay, so the benefits but but as far as the Game rules the game rules are fine. That's all that makes sense and the introduction you think is pretty good, too

Speaker 2: Yes, I think I think the benefits part has to be clear as to why okay in other words You know like Rosemary said and I said shoot. Why would you do this? You just need to clear clear that So no one asked that question. Why would you do this? Okay, because in the benefits you're explaining why it's being done

Okay, so just two points of feedback is that Op-topics is a game mode of Kajenda, not a new Kajenda's game. Right. And then there should also be a section about how this is different from the current form of Kajenda, that's also what Rosemary was asking as well. And one major reason why it's different is because Kajenda's original game mode only has a gameplay before the event, whereas it has gameplay both before the event and during the event as well. and then I can also list out other benefits. But anyway, you're reading it, so feel free to add anything else there. I'm curious to hear your thoughts. - All right, so when you're saying during the, the main part is how it can be applied during the event, because people who are voting who have not voted on either can also vote on the, during the event if they did not vote on a prior, correct? - That's true, yeah. - Okay, so that's another advantage. 'Cause gender is completely before, And this one over here is people who did not vote prior have the ability to vote during. - Yeah. - Okay. - And then also another benefit of this too, and a unique aspect is that it's kind of like a step to go to Snapshot and then make a topic and you might feel like, oh, I have to make a good topic, I have to work on some of this. - And this you do-- - Whereas here's me in a Discord chat, it's gonna be conversational. So it's very easy for people to just post topics easily. So you're giving people the option, number one, to propose the topic beforehand, but many many people have not, and you have proven record that they have not. So this is giving them a second option to propose a topic. And it's making it easier, yeah, and it's doing it in the form of a chat rather than having to go out to somewhere else and make it like a whole. Correct. And they don't have to go out of their way, they're actually doing it while they're there. Which makes it simplified and easier access for them. Yeah, in the Discord chat. Right. So that actually is the biggest advantage. And then people could like ask and like come up with a topic together like somebody be like oh Maybe we should discuss this and then that could inspire me aspect Oh, yes discuss this about this right and also because of the up topics It's also creating more conversation within the community at the time of the event because everybody has the ability to vote on the actual topic In other words like yeah, that's hand-hold right now Now, just say you have three people that have voted on Cajenas and you have three other people who are actually new to the community and they really didn't vote on Cajenas because number one, they're not aware of it, they have no clue on it. So this year, those three people can sit back and see exactly what the other three who know what they're doing and say, "Well, wait. Now I get it. So now there's a topic I would like and I'm going to add that to see." It may not be the top one, but at least they're given a floor to say the topic they would like to have at the time of the event? Well, the way that-- It's based on respect, granted, which means that their event won't go so high, but they still have the ability to do it, to suggest the topic. Mm-hmm. Right? Yeah. Granted, if it was somebody that was brand new, and you, and Tadas, and Rosemarie, and Hadlon suggest the topics because of your respect levels, your topics are going to go first. But at least you know that you hear their topics. Or you can actually say that's an awesome topic, and you four can agree that's a good topic. Let's go there. Yeah, so one of the rules, I don't know if you got to it, is that if over half of the well-respected community members decide to choose a topic, then they can just skip to that kind of stuff and know where it goes. So anybody can sort of close the topic during the meeting. OK, yeah, I'm getting there now. No, if you explain the exact difference between the two, because the way I'm getting it now, it's more interactive play and voting at the time of the event as opposed to prior to the event. But also more interactive prior to the event as well. Right, but I'm saying the main thing is the interactive-- because people that are new are not going to go prior. So this is more welcoming for new people, is what I'm trying to point out. Yeah, and it's also more like, for example, maybe Hanlon or Abraham or Rosemary, somebody who's there a lot, might like, they can be more expressive basically. Like they don't have to like, you know, it's kind of awkward, like raise your hand and be like, "Yeah, I think we should move on to the next topic. This is boring." - Right. - But this just gives them a way to just quickly, easily say next topic. - Right, and they can say next topic in the chat then, right? They don't have to say it out loud. - Yeah, that's the rules. - Okay. (gentle music) It's good, but I think the main clarity and the main benefits, you've got to maybe put down a list of benefits why this is really good. And I know you have it written down, but I would do a benefit bullet point at the very end, like a quick summary of what you're trying to say, because this is longer and it's getting a little lost. But at the end, I would say, in overview, this is the main benefit for it. These are the main reasons why we're doing this. And it's also very, very welcome for newcomers. So that's the one thing I would add in there, because that makes it appear that you're trying something for a specific reason. I mean, reasons to get a better voting, yeah, but at the same time make newcomers welcome, because you get a lot of newcomers. And this is just literally an additional way to welcome them, that they have a voice. And I do like the octopus. And it's also encouraging a lot of participation with it too. So it's another benefit. And it also makes it more active in the chats before going into the event and kind of stealing a discussion like, "Hey, what are our base priorities? What should we discuss?" It makes it more like an active involvement. It's inviting more conversation and more participation. That's what it's doing and that's very good. So those are your benefits. I think at the very end here, I'm reading it now here, but I like the idea of doing an overview summary at the end of the benefits. Well, there are some of the... Like I would say, because gender does... There's other ones... I know, but you see you're reading it, but you can say, because gender does this, this, and this. We want to take it one step up. I can say like the original or traditional or basic, I don't know, basic game mode or or like default game mode agendas does this, this, and this. But this game mode does this, this, and this. - And we want to add the extra play feature where it's, and you give the reasons. It's more welcome for newcomers. It actually gives people who haven't had a chance to do a pre-vote. Many people are busy, so it's respecting their time that you're allowing them again to have that second option to vote some place, second or third. I think that part's good, and I think the bullet point, think would really help. Yeah because it's very long the explanation is long I would definitely do the build. I mean it needs to be long I understand but I think you should have a quick summary of what this all is. Just do a bullet point in the bottom or in the top or okay well I would probably do the bullet points on the top first. I think that you're further than you need to be so it ended at here. Okay. Is the way that I have it like sold out. But this is also still a draft too so for example I could get rid of like this part or this part. It's still fairly early but as far as and those are some benefits but I can also use some of the benefits that we came up with. Right. Because a lot of this I had written down like ideas and then I work with AI and AI generated but I have to like refine it down to what it's supposed to be. Well maybe you can define what we just said to what you had, maybe they can get a lot shorter. Which is why I'm recording this too, because there are some unique benefits that we can apply. Well I think the biggest thing is to show the difference between the two and why one enhances the other. That's the main thing. You know, Optopox is actually an enhancement on Cajenidus. But at the same time too though, the original game mode for Cajenidus is important and has its own benefits. Right, right. That's what I said, it's just an enhancement. work unless you have the original game and the game of [inaudible] >> That's why you have enhancement. >> To choose to play this game because there are sometimes you want to just say, "Hey, this is the topic for today." And with the original content, you can do that. You don't want to be able to have to like switch between topics all the time. >> And the other thing is if the topic that you initially decide to vote on, if it's discussed and agreed upon very quickly, then you need another topic. >> Yeah. >> So that's to continue a conversation, to continue the continue the medium going, this will actually provide that. So that's another advantage. So if you have a topic that you choose, and that topic is resolved within five minutes, you need your next topic. So this is helping you provide with your next topic, and so forth, and your topic after that or whatever. So I think that's good. And then it could be like a topic rotation, it can help that. Okay, can I stop now and go for a walk? I think you're good. - Yeah, sure. - I would like to see it after. Like I said, I think just the benefits and the comparison as to why the enhancement actually helps for everything. To me it's more welcoming, number one. And number two, it really makes it easier for people that have limited time. They don't have the time to stop in the middle of the week and vote on this. And they only have the time to make a meeting. during that meeting, they're getting the same access and ability to participate as if they had done it beforehand. So it's a feature of basically that's addressing and respecting people's time. That's what it is. Another thing about it too is that it organizes people's time better and gives people an easier way to express what they want to say during the meeting. Because a lot of times people want to discuss something and like you don't know how people feel about it. Like maybe somebody's like "oh I don't care that I'm sure that topic" maybe one person asks a question and then you answer it but then four other people are like "uh whatever". So it allows people to like very easily express their opinion in a way that's like smooth and easy for them to do and well structured And that makes it, and then another thing I have here too is that, like this game is going to start promptly at 18 UTC. Right. So like last week for example, I wanted to talk about another topic that was interesting, but it was another topic that was outside of the scope of agendas. So this is like you start right at 18 UTC, and then from then on it's up to the community to express what they want to talk about. So I don't want to talk too much about some different topic and so forth, and at any point if somebody is getting bored with something then they can say no. know but it's also kind of fun because if somebody says like next topic and somebody can veto it and I'd be like no same topic same topic right it goes by with what the community wants if the one person says video and for people say no we want to talk about this then the person's overruled. All right, I'm gonna go for a walk. Do you mind if I ask you before you go just... Did it all make sense to you? Did it all make sense to you? Yes, it made sense. But I said it would make more sense if I saw the bullet points first and then the clarification below These are the benefits the benefits of clarified below. I think that would make more sense We're introduced you know introduce that you like what kind of way you have it you have introducing this and then you write the benefits So I would just enhance the benefits and make them a little bit clearer. Okay, so the benefits but but as far as the Game rules the game rules are fine. That's all that makes sense and the introduction you think is pretty good, too Yes, I think I think the benefits part has to be clear as to why okay in other words You know like Rosemary said and I said shoot. Why would you do this? You just need to clear clear that So no one asked that question. Why would you do this? Okay, because in the benefits you're explaining why it's being done