How to improve voting participation.

[cylonmaker2053]

recently we talked with @JonnyBitcoin on slack... about the idea, to interview each person, every time when new worker proposal will be made. This could be organize in the form of public hangout with questions from host of the program and from audience.

that's a good idea and would certainly boost marketing for worker proposals. i think a standardized worker platform page linked to from the voting section of the OL wallet would be great. nothing too detailed, but more like a political platform sort of thing in case people want to delegate proxies to people who share similar ideology for where Bitshares should go, rather than get into the weeds with proposal details.

[noisy]

recently we talked with @JonnyBitcoin on slack... about the idea, to interview each person, every time when new worker proposal will be made. This could be organize in the form of public hangout with questions from host of the program and from audience.

[cylonmaker2053]

One reason i only recently started voting is bc i didn't really understand the different work proposals that were out there. Better descriptions, sort of advertisements from the workers, in the wallet voting section would be easier to follow, maybe get more people excited to vote. Proxies could be our version of politicians

[abit]

FYI I've ever written some random thoughts here: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,20962.0.html

[noisy]

During last hangout with bytemaster one of the topic was "low participation of community in Voting".
If I am reading those stats correctly right now only small fraction of stake really votes:


source: http://cryptofresh.com/ballots

Personally I think there are couples of reasons why people do not vote. I talked about that during hangout:

https://youtu.be/Y24JU1ZU-6w?t=57m28s
https://youtu.be/Y24JU1ZU-6w?t=1h6m32s

So in my opinion we should do something to encourage people to vote. Absolutely we should not pay them... but we should educate people about possibilities of choices.

We could use cryptofresh as provider of "short description of each proxy". We could also use blockchain as random generator, which will randomly pick featured proxy. Every 10 minutes featured proxy will changed... or every time when wallet will be opened.

Personally I am against to the idea of paying for advertisement time in the wallet. Everyone (even without big amount of money) should have equal rights to be promoted.



This is just the sketch which illustrate the whole idea. I have tried to keep this simple, but maybe some additionall link to forum should also be added. The most important thing is, If user will find good proxy for him, then he can vote with a single click of the button.

I am waiting for your feedback, comments and your ideas