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City Nouns: A global network of city-based Nounish DAOs celebrating culture, creativity & governance. Powered by Nouns Builder. Founded by @zamees & @rdubb.
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There are legitimate concerns that this governance structure may violate the spirit of open-source DAO governance, particularly around decentralization, transparency, and the ability for dissent. The City Council is empowered to define and enforce ethical standards. This introduces a centralized enforcement mechanism, potentially conflicting with City Nouns DAO's commitment to decentralized governance, where power is ideally distributed through token-based voting. The clause allowing the Council to determine “official” conduct could enable subjective or politically motivated enforcement, especially without a transparent appeal or checks-and-balances system. The prohibition against “guerrilla literature” or altering values through “undemocratic means” is concerning & could stifle dissent. This is an open source a feature often seen as vital in open-source cultures like City Nouns DAO /builder https://nouns.build/dao/base/0xdf4f168ba41c88ab4d0f1e2117110600c7e44b6d/vote/9?tab=votes
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I believe in City Nouns’ mission — and that’s why I oppose this proposal. City Nouns was founded on open-source values: decentralization, transparency, collaboration, and community-led governance. This proposal contradicts those principles. It introduces a centralized “Council” with vague authority, retroactively assigns veto power, and attempts to redefine the role of a founding contributor without consent or vote. You can’t change the rules after the game has started. I stepped back temporarily due to breakdowns in collaboration and communication. That does not erase my role as a co-founder, nor does it justify removing me from the multi-sig wallet I helped set up or rewriting the DAO's history through off-chain documents. I support structured governance — but only if it's truly accountable to the community, not consolidated behind closed doors. The appointed Council was not elected - https://nouns.build/dao/base/0xdf4f168ba41c88ab4d0f1e2117110600c7e44b6d/vote/8?tab=votes
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PSA: Today, @zamees publicly announced the creation of a “City Council” — assigning specific individuals roles of power or influence — without a DAO vote, without tokenholder consensus, and without onchain ratification. None of the listed individuals currently hold any $CITY tokens and they were not nominated or approved through a proposal. This move concentrates governance authority in a non-tokenholding, unelected group and was done unilaterally by @zamees who already controls a significant portion of voting power. Power and responsibilities should be delegated by proposal and community vote. Appointing roles without DAO input undermines that system. A significant concern raised in Discord today was @zamees public post declaring that any proposals not aligned with his outlined process “will be vetoed.” This is incompatible with Creative Commons, OSI standards, and the ethos of DAOs. City Nouns was founded on Creative Commons and /builder forkable model. We must protect that.
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