In the future, we will include the decision in the title. The reason it is in the conclusion now is that when people read the title alone they can miss the nuance of the discussion. You aren’t the first to ask, however.
I have been slightly unclear in the description. This was intended to add new options to the followee list because default following will be turned off for the “governance” topic if the currently discussed governance/voting reward proposal is accepted.
Your discussion of the Learn → Invest → Learn loop is well considered. However, that is not relevant to this proposal per-se as this aims to present options to the user. The proposal that will disable follow by default is this one Changes to governance proposals and voting reward weights (Proposal)
The malicious follow target neuron story is plausible but to me appears unrealistic. It would have to pass a community selection process to be included. The name “DFINITY Team” would not be accepted as part of a proposal to add a new neuron because it is misleading. So lets rename it “Governance Analytics” then, in our imaginary future context, users will have to select it from a range that might include ICA, DFINITY Foundation, cycle_dao, ICDevs, Governance Analytics.
We can say it will get say, 1/5th of random choice but it would be very hard to hijack voting based on credibility. The sheer amount of sustained work that has gone into establishing cycle_dao has been huge, and that is in the presence of a lot of social capital from reputable individuals.
Not to mention, sheep clothing is always ill-fitting on a wolf. cycle_dao & others would see a long con a mile off. Finally, someone needs to be motivated to do this ie. the threat has to actually exist. Personally, I don’t believe it does, but given the multiple layers of protection we have it wont be an issue if I’m wrong.
I think the process of discovering “credibly neutral” neurons is exactly what we are going through here 