Hi @fig
I would prefer this proposal to lean towards guidelines rather than mandatory. I believe the root cause is voter apathy and not what day of the week the vote falls upon.
Could you share analysis that shows the distribution of voter participation, top 100 wallets ranked by number of AAVE + stkAAVE holding should suffice?
This will show participation is low which is the real root cause being reflected in the data. Voter participation is largely offset by voter coordination efforts that encourage different entities to participate. A number of delegates are also University clubs and the two most recent fail votes, overlapped with exam periods at the respective universities.
For example, normally voting participation is coordinated with someone following up with various voting entities to ensure participation. With respect to the SD, MaticX, LDO and stMATIC rewards proposal, there was no such voter coordination effort and the vote narrowly failed. When resubmitted, there was an effort made to coordinate voter participation and the vote passed.
I would suggest weekend/weekdays is a distant second order consideration relative to current rates of participation. I would also strongly suggest whether a vote passes or fails is probably more reliant on if someone is coordinating voting efforts. I think this last minute coordination push is reflected in a lot of wallets voting late in the week. If a vote is going to fail, I know I become very active chasing votes late in the week and the data shown above probably is the bi-product of this hustle.
Perhaps a few more active delegates would introduce a more robust and reliable voting base relative to quorum. I’d personally like to see @MarcZeller and @Llamaxyz have a larger voting position within the Aave ecosystem.