[karaterobot]

This is great!

And it reveals another (probably unsolvable?) UX problem with quadratic voting: it takes so much longer to allocate votes by comparison to a thumbs-up / thumbs-down vote.

For myself, I did a pass through the issues, supporting or opposing each issue with a single vote. Then, I did another pass to add additional votes to each issue in proportion to how much I cared, while carefully paying attention to how many issues were left to be voted on, and my remaining "budget" of votes. Then, I did a final series of passes to rebalance everything, trying to make it as reflective of my positions as possible, while using as many votes as I could (so as not to leave any crumbs of democracy on the table, so to speak).

The whole thing was actually really complex, and not done in "linear time" like a traditional ballot. And it wasn't because I thought more about the issues, but purely because the rules of the system introduced so much more overhead.

Not saying I dislike the idea of quadratic voting, just that you can really feel the difference.