An open discussion on ways to improve the DAO - An open call to anyone interested in helping.

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@CraniumCalvin

I feel this could easily be turned into one main mission statement. Here is my attempt at that.

lol! We tried that already. Hilariously, the DAO voted it down

btw kudos for trotting out Dunbar. Well done.

@CraniumCalvin

So I propose that we DO need a steward. A group, or even better, groups that help to steer the ship. This could even be a temporary measure, and one day maybe the DAO can succeed in a truly decentralised way. We may not have mastered DAOs yet, and we may not know exactly what works, and what doesn’t. But, we have thousands of years of history that teach us the successes and failures of our ancestors.

Agreed. And that was the impetus for my originally adding an Oversight Chair to my proposal AIP-466: Proposal To Close Non-Essential Working Groups

@CraniumCalvin

IMO the idea of a ‘Special Council’ wasn’t a bad one, it was sensible solution to the scalability issue. The problem is, we designed from what we knew, and ended up with a far too centralised hierarchical structure.

It’s a lot more insidious than that, but I’d rather not go there - again.

Anyway, I agree with the entirety of your post because, even though you’re new around here, it appears as if you have aptly captured the challenges of the DAO in a format that has allowed you to formulate an understanding of the challenges and proposed remedies.

For the record, for the longest time, I have repeatedly advocated that the only way to “fix” the DAO was to dissolve it and start from scratch. Some people thought it was too radical and that I was mad. Here we are.