Nouns

One Noun, every day, forever.

nouns.wtf

One thing that hinders prop boldness (and quality) is the fact that every nouner votes on every prop. That way, bold props have to be diluted out to cater to voters with every kind of background.

I think having domain-specific governance pods would do wonders for Nouns. It would favor prop depth instead of breadth.

Specializing governance also turns the problem of incentivizing expenditure in general into a problem of budgeting. It's easier for voters to reason about where the ETH should flow to by evaluating the results of specific pods instead of making this decision on a per-prop basis.

The more ambitious the props, the harder it is to get its point across to voters that are not deep into the specifics of its domain.

That severely diminishes the universe of passable props in Nouns, and makes high-quality props rarer as the voter base grows

I think survivorship bias plays a huge role here. Proposers are well aware of the meta, so we don't get to see the undiluted props.

I think we do see them, for instance, in @gnars.

while this feels possible i’m not sure if there’s really a prop that didn’t make it for this reason unless we think they aren’t making it onchain even for this reason. 

candidate props in a way can surface crazier ideas and if we see them being culled down into more boring versions then I would agree!

Pushing eth to Pods is probably a better solution than forced spend and burn mechanisms.