"Introduction to the Splinterlands Community Proposal System: Guidelines and Process"

Splinterlands, a digital card game built on the blockchain, is introducing a new community proposal system that allows players to submit proposals for consideration for a formal governance vote. The process for submitting a proposal is as follows:

Transfer 100,000 DEC tokens to a specific account from the same account that will be publishing the proposal post. Note the Hive blockchain transaction ID of the transfer (can be found on https://hiveblocks.com) and include it as the very first line in the post.

Publish a post on the Hive blockchain detailing the proposal, making sure to include the transaction ID as the first line. Tag the post with #spsproposal

Community members can vote on the proposal by upvoting or downvoting the post. After 7 days, the Splinterlands team will calculate the total staked SPS held by those who upvoted or downvoted the proposal.

If the total of the staked SPS in the accounts that upvoted or downvoted the post is at least 5% of the total staked SPS in the system (roughly 473M currently), at least 66% of those were upvotes, and the proposal meets other guidelines, the proposal will move to an official vote and be published on the Splinterlands website.

This proposal system is an informal version that aims to allow the community to begin putting forth their proposals for consideration for a formal governance vote. The 100,000 DEC fee for submitting proposals is necessary to avoid spam and to help ensure that proposals are serious and worth the time to read and consider. The fee may be adjusted in the future if agreed by the community via a proposal vote. The fee will not be refunded for any reason as it is burned, meaning it is not sent to any wallet address from which it can be recovered.

There are guidelines that proposals must follow in order to be considered for an official vote. Proposals must contain all of the details necessary for implementation in order to be considered. Vague or unclear proposals will not be accepted as it won't be clear what exactly stakeholders are voting for and the Splinterlands team won't be able to ensure that they can actually implement it correctly. Additionally, proposals should focus on one concept or change each. A group of changes that all work together towards a common goal can be submitted together, but should be clearly separated and explained.

The SPS DAO (comprised of staked SPS token holders) has complete control over the SPS, VOUCHER, and LICENSE tokens. For everything else, the community may still propose changes, but it is ultimately up to the Splinterlands team whether or not to put those community proposals up for official voting.

During the informal voting period, the author may make edits to the proposal post to clarify things or make changes to some of the smaller proposal details requested by the community. However, if a proposal requires very significant edits that fundamentally alter the concept being proposed, those should instead be made as an entirely new proposal, which also means paying the fee again. Proposals should be well thought-out and detailed before being posted and the edit feature should not be a way to sneak additional items in without paying the fee again.

It is important to note that if we suspect that edits have been made at the last minute or in any way in an attempt to trick the stakeholders, that proposal will not continue to formal voting and the fee will not be refunded. A full history of all edits to posts are always available on the Hive blockchain, so it is not possible to hide changes.