Voting...."ice cream flavour". Is this a reason to buy GRC?
Anyone can create polls once they've got enough GRC, if you don't care about ice cream just ignore it, we have important polls occasionally which established development directions in the past: https://gridcoinstats.eu/poll
Just because there's only the one silly poll right now that doesn't mean it's not an important tool which benefits the gridcoin network.
I, for one, am in favour of casual polls here and there, gives the network a bit more flare lol.
In addition of the developer remunetarion & staking change...what else came from pool? Ice cream flavor? Cuttest animal? Somehow I expected serious topics there as It costs money to vote.
The whitelist uses the voting mechanism to approve/reject projects on the whitelist, multiple rules have been voted upon like mandatory requirements.
On chain governance is not perfect yet, but it is there and is a good beginning. One of the things that would improve it is broader participation / coin ownership.
Some silly polls do not change that and, who knows, might be more important than we can see. Good example is Dogecoin built on jokes.
Well, technically speaking yeah, it 'costs money' to vote, but only like 1/1000th of 1 Gridcoin. That's pretty miniscule. (I'm assuming that's the cost you're talking about.)