Atom Town Hall is a polling system that imitates governance in an encloed environment to allow Cosmos Hub to have shorter governance proposals and allow validators and stakers to have a better conversation about proposals before going on chain. We all know the controversy created behind the proposals in Cosmos and this is a guide to make them better. Commonwealth allows discussion but does not create a voting similar to proposals that allow stakers to actually give their opinion. In real life elections and voting, polling is a crucial part for decisions and strategy building before the voting day, then why shouldn’t it be in decentralized governance where voting has an even bigger impact?
Polls will need a certain deposit of ATOM as well, as well as votes to have a weight depending on the stake and the validator. As well, each validator and voter can add their reason for their vote attached to their vote. This way, we can ensure cleaner and better proposals to go on chain for voting. We can also add a proposal later on to allow ONLY polled proposals to go on chain.
Proposal creators can also add a incentives to certain voters to get key stakeholders to give their opinion on a proposal. Proposals that are deemed to fail will no longer be available to add in the ecosystem.
All of this is simulated, and none of it actually happens on-chain, which creates a safe environment for polling. Voters can also turn on anonymous voting.
