What are thoughts on private voting/discussions?

For voting

Pros: less politics involved, ppl can vote what theybwant
Cons: governance attacks easier

Discussions

Pros: people can say what they want without fear - you can tell if there is a plan to attack governance
Cons: ?

MrKevinOConnell.github

@neynar prev @hypeshot

don't take my casts seriously please (most of them at least)

What sort of governance attacks are you thinking of?

Making the blockchain invisible at /thirdweb

There are some creative approaches to vote counting you could use to try to fight that (Quadratic voting being the most popular one)

Personally I think private voting prevents social pressures which are always annoying to deal with

Some privacy in the vote can also prevent certain governance attacks.

E.g. #1 if the tally is hidden, it's harder for whales to work out how much they need to buy up last minute to sway the vote

#2 public Blockchain make bribery and vote selling really easy (.. if indeed that's seen as a bug)

I think it's also relevant what kind of voting/governance model is in place.