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```
HIP: 63
title: Delegations on the DAO Snapshot
author: drlorente97.eth, @L18630, ludoviko.eth, santi.eth, v4len.eth
status: Phase-1
created: 2022-09-10
```

### Simple Summary
This HIP proposes the DAO decides on a proper mechanism to regarding voting delegations on its Snapshot page for making decisions. 

### Abstract
Due to recent events that led to the DAO Mission Board to [temporarily suspend delegations](https://snapshot.org/#/pohboard.eth/proposal/0x696ac6169cc7e93af8b8dc341f55e7b18a03b974678bda7f2ccb5c71d4b343de), we have put forward this proposal in order to allow the DAO decide what is the best mechanism for its voting process moving forward. 

### Motivation

Delegations have been subject of controversy since they potentially allow clientelist behaviour where vulnerable populations can be taken advantage of an be coerced into delegating to a specific individual or the geographical distance of regions enables certain communities to rally delegations without the knowledge of the other one. 

At the same time, delegations can happen naturally on cyberspace whether Snapshot allows it or not, with applications that can replicate automatically the vote of a person. This is why it is often considered UX to make these easily available in the User Interface so everyone can play with the same rules. 

### Specification

We propose 3 alternatives regarding delegations: 

1. **Direct Democracy (No Delegations)**: Delegations are not allowed and everyone gets strictly 1 vote, making this a direct democracy method.

2. **Liquid Democracy (Delegations Allowed)**: Maintain the system of delegations that has been historically used by the DAO.

3. **Quadratic Delegations**: People are free to delegate their vote, but delegations get tallied quadratically. This means that the square root of the delegations received is counted rather than the full amount of delegations. This allows to put a cap on the influence of large delegates while keeping delegations open. 

### Implementation

This vote will be held without delegations activated according to the resolution approved by the DAO's Mission Board.

These are the corresponding implementatinos for each option if they were to win:

- Direct Democracy: This implementation requires that the module for delegations on Snapshot `erc20-balance-of-delegation` gets definitively removed. 

- Liquid Democracy: This implementation requires that the module for delegations on Snapshot `erc20-balance-of-delegation` gets definitively implemented. 

- Quadratic Delegations: This implementation requires that a module for delegations similar to `erc20-balance-of-delegation` gets implemented that calculates the balance of delegations as the square root of the total of delegations received. It can have the name `erc20-balance-of-quadratic-delegation`.

