Should DAO proposals have a pre-defined 'Abstain' voting option? This proposal is now in status: PASSED. Voting Results: * Yes 76% 1,348,181 VP (265 votes) * No 24% 434,849 VP (6 votes)

I do not have data to back up the psychological bias toward apathy, it might be a good metric to analyze during the first months of this feature if it goes live. What I do know is that voters sometimes change their minds about a proposal and there is no other way besides casting the opposite option. I think it is worth trying.

I do agree however sadly the reality is that Whale votes carry weight and people don't want to vote against their wishes in fear of it backfiring on them in the future. @RobL voted no on my proposal with this 4M VP and even he told me that he knew it would hard for me to get yes votes after his no vote and he wishes there was an Abstain vote for him to change it to since he did not want to change to yes since it would seem that he single handedly passed my proposal and only wanted to to vote yes on my proposal after I got 3.5M VP that way it would not look like that. Even tho he gave me his word and I got the 3.5M VP and decided to go against his word last minute. I could be wrong but I think Abstain would have solved his issue as he said it would. Altho it is hard to say since he decides to go against his word last minute.

Showing up to say you don't want to participate wastes everyone's time. If you already voted and feel so strongly to be changing your vote, it shouldn't be because you no longer care to cast a vote in that proposal. This extra option will psychologically bias voters into grouping themselves into the "I dont care to participate" category which will not produce good outcomes for the DAO.

This legit would have saved me on my last grant proposal. 1,000% yes