Thinking about the future of BTS I realized that quite some homework has to done first.
What is still unclear to me are the requirements for 'approval'.
I came to the conclusion that we probably want to distinguish different thresholds for different objectives.
First of all, an approval needs to be a binary decision. The, what we already have by now is approving a worker to be paid by the blockchain. The approbal here is reached if the worker proposal is upvoted enough to receive a pay (either above the current refund400k or above any of the other refund/burn workers later). So that is already fine, shareholders know the drill and have several options (upvote/downvote).
What is left is a consensus about how a hard fork proposal delegate should be dealt with and how to reach consensus about it.
My first thought would be to set the threshold for approval to exactly zero net positiv votes. Here shareholders compete with pro and contra votes. If the net vote result is negative, the proposal is rejected. If it is positive, the proposal is accepted. That would give everyone a 'fair' share in the decision but of course has (arguable) drawback that whales' decisions are difficult to prevent. (Arguable because of "shareholder"!!! consensus) ..
To relax the rule, we could have a threshold worker (zero pay) so that shareholders can define the threahold as well ... The interessting consequence would be that those that dont want to see ANY change to the protocol can upvote the threahold while thoae that want a flexible protocol can downvote it ... This worker would then correspond to refund worker for hired positions.
To extend the idea, we could (maybe) characterize different BSIPs into categories (tier-1, tier-2..) and have a distinct thrshold for them.
But the leads to the question whether we. (Not necessarily the shareholder) can find a specification for the categories.
And then of course we can combine them. A hard threshold which must be passed by ever soft threshold and a successfully approved proposal must surpass the hard threshold AS WELL as the category-specific soft threshold.
Discuss!