The following vote as I understand it was placed within the system by Dfinity and I don’t see too many problems with it.
What I read is that it is the active not the inactive that are creating problems by looking through the code and seeing how and to do spamming. Yet I see more about how to make the inactive pay the price.
Please understand that I love to see solutions and the forum trying to do something to fix the active problems but I have to give my opposite view.
It seems to me that we should stop the spammers and their behavior.
As I understand the spamming problem
There are neuron owners that have large quantities of coins but more importantly receive many more rewards than most for voting.
A demonstration I saw was about 2 examples that referred to 1 holder having 60,000 icp while the other had 32,000 icp.
So I believe, while we can follow and receive rewards from following and there seems to be much to vote on each day that some feel they can earn more rewards by putting up bogus proposals to earn further rewards.
I see it was proposed to raise the cost per proposals for failure around a model of coins equal for all holders that put forward a proposal.
I believe the 2 examples of the holders above would receive 100s of icp a year while I will receive 10s of icp a year for the same voting.while the cost of a proposal is the same for all.
This could make it costly for myself but for those with larger amounts of coins would still feel this is not expensive for them and may continue to spam.
If you were to change this to a percentage of your whole stake then this would make it more equal. The only ones that would complain are those spamming.
We would then find those same clever people, retain their advantage by setting up smaller neurons for a proposal and for that I would think that we could calculate the percentage on the anchor to include all neurons.
But then I have never put forward a proposal and I am not sure of the process other than seeing what I feel is a proposal for spammers that are laughing at us right now and myself the follower feeling bad about myself.
Maybe I don’t understand the issue correctly and maybe I will see my stupidity at a later time but at this time you must forgive me for feeling the need to voice my opinion.