RE: DHF Proposals Could Use Polls

Polls have so many use cases. I hope the Open Polls protocol will be accepted and implemented throughout the Hive ecosystem, as it will enhance our options considerably.

I think and hope so, too. It will be important to design everything with maximum flexibility as well as simplicity and ease of use, so that everyone can easily implement the system. And it is great to see people coming up with use cases and ideas for how it can be useful. Even though a poll doesn't necessarily enforce anything on its own, people can choose to agree on and follow its outcome, and if this is the case then polls can serve as a general governance system that can be used for all sorts of decision-making scenarios, with very high flexibility to tweak the poll settings for the particular situation. I guess we'll see what happens and how we'll use it.

Ok, but how would the poll affect the parameters of the proposal, if the DHF code isn't updated to set the proposal parameters to the ones associated with the winning option of the poll?

There are some things that can be changed after a proposal is published. The funding requested can be reduced (but not increased). The deliverables agreed on can also be changed by agreement, which would mean simply changing the post to specify the deliverables. I guess another thing that can be changed is that the proposal can be deleted at any point - I don't know if the end date can be changed but the proposal creator can promise to delete it at a certain date and a notification system can be tied to the poll to notify all poll participants to stop voting for the proposal at that date. This last example sounds perhaps a bit too convoluted for regular usage, but my point is more so that changes to the core blockchain software take time and typically give us limited flexibility, whereas if we think of ways to do something without needing to change the blockchain software itself, then we have very high flexibility and ease of change. If we can make it work reliably and easily, of course.

Splinterlands hasn't found a magic formula with the SPS DAO, but they are willing to make small, incremental changes to improve things. It doesn't help that they don't have enough dev power right now. This is a problem we generally have on Hive, unfortunately.

Yep, definitely. Now, imagine a situation where instead of people developing solutions for their particular app, they developed general solutions. Specify an open protocol for how it will work, make backend nodes that anyone can run, and then make it easy for frontends to implement the feature. There is so much repetition of work happening right now, and instead we can think of how to create generalized and highly flexible features or building blocks that anyone can use. I don't think we have a lack of dev power but a lack of this kind of coordination, which incidentally polls can also help with, hopefully.