A suggestion for a long-term solution of governance proposal spam

[justmythoughts]

Welcome to the community, and thanks for your thoughts on this issue.

@nlh

Set a high voting reward weight for governance proposal (20 as it’s used to be or even higher).
This is to ensure that governance participation is highly rewarded (which is just a no-brainer IMHO).

The higher the voting rewards for a specific topic, the higher the financial incentive to spam that topic. This issue only exists because governance followees were split from the rest of followees earlier this year.

@nlh

Set a “time-out” time for each neuron whenever one of its submitted governance proposals is rejected by super-majority (or approved by super-minority).

Creating a neuron is very inexpensive. If I were the spammer (and making over 1k ICP/month from spamming), then I would just create tens or hundreds of neurons and rotate through them for each proposal depending on the cooldown.

I would also recommend looking at this post for some recent context on prioritizing the implementation of 55651, which would boost rewards for active participants. Proposal to Prioritize 55651 (Periodic Confirmation) & 38985 (Manual Voting) over 48623 (Compounding Maturity)

as well as this comment,

@justmythoughts

All that really matters are the votes on updates to the replica - many of which pass with 99%+ approval ratings as everyone’s neurons are default following DFINITY.

Arguably votes on updating the replica (code) are even more important than the governance votes. The more I think about this the less it makes sense to boost rewards for votes on the governance topic.