Defining deprecated SNSs

[aterga]

Hi @marcio

Thanks for pointing out the fact that different DAOs operate in different jurisdictions which might have special rules for how a DAO registered there should be operated.

Note that in this thread, we proposed a definition for deprecated (not dissolved) DAOs, as observed from various frontend websites and SNS tools. The key difference is the active and irreversible nature of dissolution, while deprecation happens naturally, e.g., if users lose interest, but it does not necessarily entail any permanent change. Deprecation isn’t caused by an operation that the DAO performs.

I believe the best indicator is the number of approved proposals. Most ledger transactions are just bot activity, and the number of submitted proposals alone isn’t a reliable measure.

So there are two questions here:

1. Would proposal submission or adoption be a better activity indicator?
2. Are ledger transactions a good indicator?

Our proposed definition was purposefully chosen to be quite liberal, in the sense that even if only a bot makes a single ledger transaction, that would be enough for the frontends to consider this SNS active again. Making the definition stricter would be possible in the future, but there’s currently no pressing need for that; we just need a systematic way to keep the frontends nice and tidy.

A reasonable threshold could be 1–2 years, or perhaps a function of the maximum lock period.

Conversely, I think it would defeat the purpose of this proposal to have such a long period until an inactive SNS stops taking up space in the frontends.

Here’s a recent screenshot of NNS dapp. In my view, it doesn’t benefit most users to have ​---- (formerly CYCLES-TRANSFER-STATION) next to highly active projects, e.g., WaterNeuron, KongSwap, etc.

Moreover, I’d argue that if a new user opens the ​---- page in the frontend, only to discover that all that info is irrelevant to them, there’s a high chance they would simply give up and don’t even explore the other SNSs. The frontends should present information that is highly valuable to the users.