Proposal Discussion: Named Neurons for SNS Governance
Hi everyone,
I’d like to open a discussion around enabling Named Neurons within SNS governance, similar to what we currently have in the NNS.
Context
In the Network Nervous System (NNS), neurons can register as Named Neurons (also referred to as Known Neurons?), which users can follow for automated voting. This brings two powerful benefits:
Delegated voting through trusted representatives (liquid democracy).
Transparency on who is influencing governance.
Currently, this functionality does not exist in SNS DAOs. Each SNS has its own governance, but users must
Vote manually or search and follow the trustworthy neurons manually, which is a cumbersome process.
Feature Request: Named Neurons for SNS
What I propose:
Introduce Named Neurons in SNS governance, so SNS neuron holders can follow them similarly to how it’s done in the NNS.
Let neuron owners optionally register their neuron name + description with the SNS DAO.
Allow SNS voting frontend to display a list of public neurons with metadata for users to follow.
NNS Enhancement Suggestion
While we’re here — it would also be incredibly useful if the current list of Named Neurons in the NNS could be sorted by:
Age (how long the neuron has existed)
Voting Power (current) / Self and Followers
Date the neuron was registered as “Named Neuron” on Frontend
Alphabetical Order
This would help newer users understand the governance landscape and choose trusted neurons more effectively.
Looking forward to your thoughts. If there’s already something in the works, I’d love to learn more — and happy to help shape the direction if this is something others want too.
Known SNS neurons is a feature that’s currently being worked on I believe there are also plans to provide accompanying info about each neuron. Voting power is a key thing to display (this should help avoid giving more power to neurons that already have too much)
You see @catpirate32 it doesn’t work like that. Officially I’m in DRE team, which means reliability. Everything not related to reliability is not relevant to me professionally. Kristofer and Severin are also not in the SNS development. You are looking for support from other community members, ideally multiple SNS communities, and then the SNS development team.
Personally yeah this sounds like a good idea. Why not have this. Although I’ve thought about it for maybe a few minutes. Maybe there’s something bad about it, I honestly don’t know yet.
But one thing to keep in mind is that it’s development effort and it’s always a question why is this more important than other planned projects? I.e., why is this important enough to work on now rather than later? And I’m not saying it’s not, just saying that development resources are always limited and this should be clearly argumented.
Also are you willing to prepare a PR for this?
I have seen this @Lorimer . I have also seen many other roadmaps and promises made by DFINITY. Example: VetKeys by 2023
I guess @sat what you are trying to say here is DFINITY has priorities and works on things it prioritizes like Bitcoin or ChainFusion with Toniq or others.
Not Colluding with known scammers to prioritize features no-one uses over network security?
you have to be clear here. Are you talking about a Pull Request, Press Release or some other thing? I can give incredible PR to DFINITY as usual from my media channels.
I would do it for free btw, Iff I had free time left after dealing with rampant rugs and collusion in this network
Also are you asking me to do it for free? One of us is being paid by DFINITY to build stuff and the other is being censored and blacklisted. I’ll let you figure this out.
No offense.
Maybe the recent revelations about SNS scams? Also it strengthens network security? I’ve provided a brief rationale in the topic post.
Honestly, it is odd that DFINITY building the most advanced “blockchain” cannot prioritize features that improve transparency and security of the network.
Instead we have to wake up to Forum posts about SNS scams and Node Provider collusion in this forum, which by the way is not a major issue according to some dfinity employees. Instead they are talking about irrelevant things like Mean Words Moderation and Automation
Haha yeah sorry, I’m totally in the development world and didn’t occur to me that PR can mean anything other than pull request.
I’m also absolutely not in the conspiracy or collusion theories. I find them a huge time sink and prefer building cool things instead. Not saying that potential collusion should not be discussed. Just not with me. And certainly not in a forum. I might find that a good topic over a or .
I believe there are also plans to provide accompanying info about each neuron. Voting power is a key thing to display (this should help avoid giving more power to neurons that already have too much)
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