How it is today

The author of the proposal does not earn karma towards MOON, but the comments do count towards MOON.

The problem

Some governance polls, like CCIP-056, are very controversial, and there was a lot of downvoting occurring on comments that were against the proposal. At one point, most comments against the proposal were scoring at -2 or more. The potential of earning negative karma should not influence someone's decision to post their opinion about a governance proposal.

The solution

Have governance proposals be [NO MOON]. This would fall in line with authors of proposals not earning MOON for their governance proposal.

Positives

• There will not be a penalty for expressing your opinion about the direction of the sub.
  • This is important for posts that involve MOON earning since there has been downvoting of comments that supported restrictions in the past
• The people that do interact with governance proposals will be doing it because it is what they think is best for the sub, not to earn MOON.
• The Reddit algorithm will still run, so comments with a lot of downvotes will be ranked lower.

Negatives

• Fewer people might comment on governance proposals without the potential reward of earning MOON.

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Proposal by u/pbjclimbing

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