CCIP-047 - Community Voting on Events [Serious]

Proposal:

This proposal updates our events process to use community polls to determine event approvals and pricing. Currently, the mod team determines who is eligible for events and the pricing is a flat, dynamic price as laid out in CCIP-043. The new process would be as follows:

1. Mods will confirm the notability, identity of the guest, and compliance with the rules as usual.
2. A mod will create a poll to lay out the proposed event and guest.
3. Based on the moon weighted poll results, we have determined approval and pricing:
   1. >80% Approval- The event is approved and will be free for the guest.
   2. 20% - 80% Approval- The event is approved and the favorability percentage determines their discount. So, if 75% of the votes are in favor, the guest gets a 75% discount on the amount of moons they would have to burn. If only 25% are in favor of the event, they get only a 25% discount.
   3. <20% Approval- If less than 20% of the vote is in favor, the community has declined the event and it will not happen. The guest can try again 3 months later if they would like.
4. Then, the AMA process proceeds as normal, with the guest burning moons as appropriate.

Benefits:

• Expands the governance use-case of moons, increasing their utility
• Decentralizes event approvals
• Adjusts pricing according to interest by the community. Events the community wants should be cheaper and more common, while ad-like events are more expensive and the larger moon burn benefits moon holders more

A few other details and changes:

• To account for the size and regularity of discounts, the base moon cost for events will be tripled.
• The poll will run for 2 days, and have 2 options: one in favor and one opposed. The poll will not be pinned or part of moon week because guests usually want quicker turnaround than waiting until the following month. However, polls will be added to an "Event Governance" Collection so anyone who subscribes will get a Reddit ping when it's posted.
• The polls will be normal polls, so we don't affect the participation rate of CCIPs and their Decision Threshold.
• Quorum for event polls will be 100 votes and 10,000 Moons.
• Guests often want to solicit questions from the community ahead of their event. Users can use the comment section of the poll to submit questions for a forthcoming event.
• Community polls will be required for all CC non-routine events (AMAs, giveaways, guest Talks, etc). Banners and routine events like weekly Talks are not subject to this requirement.
• Moderators will retain the right to waive the moon burning fee for guests with >50% approval vote who may be unable to afford moons, such as educational, volunteers, or non-profits.

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