Today I was doing some thinking and I realized there are two types of Dao Token holders. There are Dao Token holders who are 'traders' they don't participate in voting, they are interested in selling tokens on the exchange for a profit. These are the forex traders. These are also the type of people (excluding malicious attacks) who are more likely to split from theDao because they want to make a profit and don't feel they can. These types of people are rewarded purely by the Dao Token's gain. Token holders for this purpose can get pretty emotional, as we see when stocks go up or down, so their reactions are largely emotional and/or profit based by majority.
Then there are the Investors and shareholders, they are interested in crowdfunding projects that will offer them a return for voting. These people are the people who are 'vested' in their 'company' or theDao, and there are different types of 'vested' people, there are people with poor 'karma' or reputation and people with good karma or reputation, those who hurt theDao and those who help theDao by helping make sure quality proposals are reviewed and go through based on something I have proposed elsewhere (see: https://forum.daohub.org/t/dao-2-0-and-governance-2-0-revamp-proposal ). The people who are 'vested' take the 'highest' risk by holding their coin, and they take even more risk when they 'vote' vs. people who do not participate or vote. There can also end up being good participation and bad participation. Having some type of karma vested system in place helps, but most importantly the ability to reward good quality -thoughtful- participation over low quality is important.
Then there are the malicious groups and people are already working on a system to prevent abuse. Having a reputation system could help with that.
Both of these groups (the first two) are crucial to the ecosystem of theDao. We need traders to sell the Dao Tokens this brings people in, but we also need people who are willing to vote, and we need good quality voters, and to reward 'wisdom' over 'foolishness'. We also need to be able to delegate to those who have proven through experience to be non-emotional arbitrators and judges who participate. I think I myself would enjoy participating in theDao ecosystem on this level or a combination of both levels if I knew there was a way to actually participate within the community and help theDao grow, to feel truly apart of theDao. I think this could only add 'quality'.
If the number of tokens you had and whether they were vested, in combination with whether an account holder is vested or something other might be helpful. I have no idea what that would look like or how to make it work, but noting that there are two types of users that theDao attracts and brings in is important because that is the dynamic we have to deal with.
What do others think?
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