How to Create Gorgeous Proposals

Now that the Curators have a clear path forward for whitelisting Proposals (see Stephan’s recent post), it’s about time to learn how to make use of the powerful functionality provided by the Mist browser! This post will show you how to make attractive, user-friendly Proposals that will encourage DAO Token Holders to understand and vote.

@boyanbc representing The DAO Slack’s Meme Team

Making a Proposal is surprisingly easy, but putting together a well-thought out Proposal that has a good chance of reaching quorum is no simple task. There is no way to guarantee any Proposal will reach quorum, but I do hope that this post will give Contractors and all DAO Token Holders a solid starting point:

Here is a good example of an interactive Proposal. Incidentally, it is the only Proposal to have collected over ½ of the required quorum:

Memes are not mandated, but seem like a clear choice :-)

And below is the markdown that was used to create the above Proposal (I added paragraph spacing in the gist to make it readable on this blog post, but Mist will only recognize `

` as a paragraph break and when pasted into the description box it will effectively be one line of code).