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[CLARIFICATION] Should DAO proposals have a pre-defined 'Abstain' voting option?

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Proposal Details

Author0x511a…4d8d
PublishedSep 12, 2023 15:06
Voting beginsSep 12, 2023 15:06
Voting endsSep 26, 2023 15:06
Snapshot#1abb2e2

Description

In the [enacted Governance proposal](https://governance.decentraland.org/proposal/?id=4ceeb900-ac83-11ed-ac8c-716656805a96) there are two definitions of how the Abstain votes behave when calculating the outcome of a proposal: In the Specification section, under the subtitle Implementation, I state: "The abstain option will be counted separately from the "for" and "against" votes, and will not affect the outcome of the vote." However, in the Implementation Pathway section I state: "If the 'Abstain' option accumulates more VP than the Yes/No option, the proposal will be considered 'Rejected' by the community." This mistake is simply a result of copying and pasting text from different versions of the drafts I used to elaborate the proposal. **The definition that should prevail is the one present in the Specification section: "The abstain option will be counted separately from the "for" and "against" votes, and will not affect the outcome of the vote."** This is how it currently works and it's how the Governance Squad implemented the feature in our Governance dApp and Snapshot strategy. Here's the [Github issue](https://github.com/decentraland/governance/issues/808) we used to track the development, where the task is specified.

Voting Rationale

0xEae2…b50AYes5

If abstain vote are more than yes and/or no, then proposal should be discarded.

4 Comments

daoOct 18, 2023

[CLARIFICATION] Should DAO proposals have a pre-defined 'Abstain' voting option? This proposal has been ENACTED by a DAO Committee Member (0xbef99f5f55cf7cdb3a70998c57061b7e1386a9b0)

daoSep 26, 2023

[CLARIFICATION] Should DAO proposals have a pre-defined 'Abstain' voting option? This proposal is now in status: PASSED. Voting Results: * Yes 98% 10,621,537 VP (115 votes) * No 1% 504 VP (4 votes) * Abstain 1% 193,413 VP (9 votes)

web3nitSep 14, 2023

Thank you Gino for swift feedback. :handshake:

ginoctSep 12, 2023

Thanks @web3nit for noticing the contradiction and alerting me about this!