Test Snapshot and Create Proposal to Implement Cagendas in Optimism Fractal Season 3

create proposal

whichever topic has the most votes in the Topic Poll on Monday at 17 UTC will be the topic discussed during that week’s event after the Respect Game
The topic will determined by rank choice voting and the topic would be chosen each week at a set time so everyone knows what we’ll discuss in advance.

first review the following technical and design consideration

check to see if it’s possible to do the following on snapshot and consider the following design decisions:

would it be helpful to make a subspace for this?
is ranked choice voting best for this or one of the other options (like for example weighted choice voting)?
would each topic be an answer in one poll or a poll in itself?

I think that each topic would likely be a poll in itself, because otherwise it seems like it would be difficult to add options to an existing poll and we’ll likely want to post many options which may exceed the limit of options per poll

would people need to split their votes across multiple proposals or do they exhaust when they are used? Does it matter?

I think either way would probably work fine at this point and be a big improvement over the status quo, so i shouldn’t overthink this

if you have just one ranked choice does snapshot make it e voting order at the time that
should each topic also have a vote at the end?

Yes I should aim to do this and consider the best way to do it
When the question involves a binary or multiple choice answer then it’s easy to create a poll and ask people to vote in it. I should create simple polls that work in this way and go along with the topic at hand whenever possible, and I should think about the best polls to ask for each topic
I also need to consider the best workflow for more open-ended questions. For example, what if I ask an open-ended question like “What are the best metrics to measure impact to the collective” or “How should the Collective measure and reward the impact of educators?”
Ranked choice voting and weighted voting is also a very helpful type of voting that I should use often when designing these topic proposals. Ranked choice and weighted voting can be simpler than open-ended questions because they don’t require people to actively participate, but they provide much more granularity and detail than a binary or multiple choice poll
I think there are some great ways to do open-ended questions, and ultimately these are some of the best formats of questions that I should ask. It’s really about turning the open-ended question into a ranked choice question (or a weighted voting question).

We can play games like Speeches or RetroPitches where each person gets 2 minutes to answer the question, then the group rank orders the best (six) answers. They would be voting for the people in this case (unless we had automatic transcription and could quickly add their text answer to the poll).
Another way that it could work is by asking people to submit answers in text, either during or before the event. The short answers in text are then added to the poll options and participants vote on the polls.
Another way it could work is to go into small random breakout groups then choose an answer via consensus or elect a delegate to represent the group in the community room.

These kinds of open ended questions that are translated into ranked choice voting provides a fun way to engage participants, a structured chance to speak and hear others, and a lot of helpful data for the Optimism Collective

We should also experiment with weighted voting and quadratic voting in the future, but for now i think that ranked choice voting is generally the best because it provides a lot of helpful data while making the process as simple and fun as possible, while also working in alignment with the ranked choice voting in the Respect Game

Keep in mind that there’s no need to just make one poll per event. I could make a survey of say 5 polls that we seek to answer throughout the event and the polls could help guide the conversation, making it both more fun, engaging, and valuable for data scientists or badgeholders who want more quality opinions

This is also similar to how we asked several questions in RetroPitches. Again, we should also remember to make it fun and award participants while accomplishing the goal.

I think that this shouldn’t be required and anyone can make a proposal without a poll, but generally it will be more fun, interesting, and valuable when there is a poll included as part of the topic or discussion where people can vote with Respect
This gives a good conclusion and reason to the discussion. It specifies what we are aiming to achieve and provides an outcome with data that the Optimism Collective can use to make more informed decisions based upon a credibly neutral, inclusive, and democratic system of Respect
It also gives more meaning and power to Respect. It demonstrates the utility of Respect and makes it more likely that people in Optimism will accept it more as a ‘currency’ of influence and reputation, especially when we include it in our promotions that show how the Respected community members voted and allow other people in the Optimism collective to also vote

I think that the voting would reset each week for topics, but I’m not sure how this would work technically.

Would people need to re-propose the same topics each week if they didn’t get discussed?
Would people need to vote on topics each week?
What happens if a topic has been partially discussed but people want to discuss it more
I think it probably makes the most sense to allow topic proposals and votes to carry over from week to week, but allow people to change their votes whenever they want

This way we minimize the amount of extra work needed, but allow people to flexibly change their preference for the topics as they see fit
Some people will likely vote for topics and then forget about it even after a topic has been discussed, but overall that is ok because: