Determining the #WarpDrive Judges
The below article is no longer relevant. Telegram Rex let me know that there is already a process underway to determine the judges.
As a community member, there is no next step needed except to wait for a poll to be released with a list of potential judges (from my understanding, at that point, people will also have the ability to propose new ones).
In an ideal world, we’d have a fully decentralized, Zenon-centric voting system built on the Dart SDK in order to determine who will make up the 7 spots on the #WarpDrive judge panel.
However, as I don’t have the skills to make that happen, I’m proposing a potential way to get to the same outcome.
The Structure
First, an open-ended poll followed by a select-7 ballot.
The poll consists of an open text box for responding to the simple question of, “Who would you like to nominate for the #WarpDrive panel?”. ZNNAliens will be able to include as few or as many names as they wish.
This gives the community the ability to determine who should be on the ballot.
The poll will be open for a set amount of time before closing.
Once closed, a ballot will be created. Every name that received at least 1 submission in the poll will make it to the ballot, and the ballot will be a select-7. This means that each name will have a checkbox, and users can select up to 7 names.
The 7 nominees with the most votes will win.
Considerations
The top considerations that come to mind are as follows:
- Anonymity — we want to make sure that nobody has to dox themselves in order to vote
- Fairness — we want to make sure that everyone has the opportunity to vote, and that all votes are equal
Re: Anonymity, I found that I can create a survey on Typeform that doesn’t require a login to participate.
Re: Fairness, I’m open to suggestions for how to prevent double-votes, but a crude method that could work would be for each vote at the ballot (not for the poll stage), users must input their Twitter or Telegram handle.
If multiple votes come from the same handle, the user will be asked which vote is authentic/should be counted. If votes come from handles that do not exist, they will be thrown out as the assumption is that it is a double vote.
Conclusion
The Poll is already created as there aren’t any complications or considerations here.
I will lean on the community to help determine when to close it, and ample heads up will be given. I’ll also lean on community to help come to best solution on the ballot phase, and best way to preserve anonymity and fairness.
The disclaimer here is that you have to trust me in order to be fair about the typeform results. I am happy to record screen videos of me checking and compiling votes in order to aide transparency, but at some level, trust is still placed in one person.
FWIW, I promise to act fairly (and open to ideas as to how to police me), but if there is a better way to determine the 7 judges, especially if someone wants to build something custom, let me know as I’m happy to support that instead.
