Write about not voting or voting late on proposals

xaur commented 5 years ago

Write an article exploring voter psychology, various voting behavior/dynamics. Explore whether:

casting your vote is good for the network even when the vote is going your way without your votes
it is better to not try and swing the vote outcome with a huge last minute vote

Discussions:

2019-03-11: initial inspiration for this issue
2019-03-16: second chat with many deep ideas that suggest late voting is not good or bad, and it's good to have freedom when to vote

Tsunekazu commented 5 years ago

What should be included in such an article:

a little bit of game theory
how a "meta-game" emerges because of live feedback of the vote
how this adds extra freedom to the voter (able to either show his vote by voting early or withhold it and not manifest it until the end)
if the writer believes this "meta-game" where someone votes in a strategic way is detrimental to the system, it should be demonstrated with some kind of empirical data or math/logic

What should be avoided:

moralizing ("people shouldn't do that") - if the system allows it and they see it as beneficial to their own self-interest (influencing others), they will do it

xaur commented 5 years ago

Related research posted by @RichardRed0x:

xaur commented 5 years ago

Second discussion here with some deep ideas.

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