RE: 2 Ideas to fix the poll system.
In principle the increased vote cost sounds reasonable, I know there are some technical reasons why magnitude is used in polls to maintain the integrity of the polling process. Developers will need to join this discussion to clarify the practicality of separating magnitude from polls.
Requirements to start a poll
Another issue with polls is the difficulty to start one. Based on current rules, it requires 100k GRC to be able to start a poll. I've been crunching for almost 3 month and I only have about 4k GRC earned in that period. As a person who is actively crunching, I wont be able to start a poll unless I buy GRC before 2026. This is absolutely ridiculous in my mind.
There is currently a poll related to poll creation costs, if anyone missed the discussion it is on redit: https://www.reddit.com/r/gridcoin/comments/83pzpd/poll_decreasing_grc_holding_limit_to_make_a_poll/
The poll is active until April 1st.
I gave my answer to that poll already but yes everyone should vote for every poll. I cant wait until the new UI is implemented and it actually shows that there are active polls. If it could keep track of which poll you voted for or not, it would be even better.