We have two mechanisms to produce polls.
DIscourse and conviction voting.
My problem with a number of the polls popping up is that they do not allow for proper signaling to be achieved. Put in a better way they are anticipating a result vs. allowing the community of voters to signal their choice.
To this end I am proposing the following polling rules.
- A signaling poll should allow for a wide range of choices covering all the valid and reasonable choice options.
- A signaling poll should also allow for an abstain choice with a place for someone to explain why they are abstaining.
- A signaling poll should have completion metric. Either a time frame and or a result metric (50 people voting and majority(>50%) or super majority (>66%))
- A signaling poll when compete actually has an actionable result (next step)
Here is an example of real signaling poll guidelines from MakerDAO.