I completely agree.
I want to apologize because I did not get involved in discussing the sentiment poll so I feel with less rights to propose ideas or changes for the next one.
One thing we should do is to poll ZURE. Do you agree? If you do, since @peacemonger has a lot on her plate this might involve some kind of collaboration so it doesn’t fall fully on her shoulders. I’m volunteering myself to help with that if this idea takes off.
Yes, new investors did their part. But ZURE was a fundamental input to get Zcash where it is today. I’m pretty confident that without those voices the Zashi team would have built something completely different. Information is king.
The other thing that could improve the signal strength of the voting corpuses is weighted voting.
Voters have a limited set of voting power and they have to assign it to the different options. This kind of happens with CHV but didn’t with ZCAP and ZEC. In real life you can’t do all at once so voting shouldn’t be done as if you could. As it was said, it was easy as ZCAP or ZEC to vote “yes|no to all” it shouldn’t be that way.
Another thing that needs to be evaluated is how mutually exclusive options are treated. I came across in X is someone who voted against some feature (I don’t remember which) because it “increases protocol complexity” but two paragraphs after that same nym was against deprecating v4 transactions which is actually a
problem in terms of protocol complexity. What happens if a sentiment poll results in this dynamic at a grand scale? How shall it be resolved if the winning options are mutually exclusive? Probably the answer is that mutually exclusive options shouldn’t be include in polls that aren’t binary.
That being said. I’m all in favor of these polls happening. We have a lot of information to elevate our discussions.