Brantly Millegan will remain as director of the Ethereum Naming Service Foundation after casting more than 363,300 votes against a proposal by a decentralized autonomous organization to remove him.
Based on a count of approximately 3.7 million votes by ENS DAO Recorded at the end of the voting period on March 5, more than 1.6 million were against removing Millegan as director of the ENS Foundation: 43.39% of the vote. More than 698,000 votes abstained from the proposal, while approximately 1.4 million votes were in favor of removing Millegan: 19.1% and 37.51%, respectively.
the controversial #ENS vote that ended on Saturday, broken down by proxy voting power.
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- Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth) (@avsa) March 7, 2022
However, many DAO users noted that Millegan used over 363,000 tokens to vote against your own impeachment, which tilted the total in his favor. Many of the votes were delegated by DAO users before the controversy that precipitated the vote, in which Millegan defended tweets he posted in May 2016 with anti-LBGTQIA statements that included "homosexual acts are evil" and "transsexualism does not exist". The former director of operations for the ENS said the tweets were in keeping with his Catholic faith.
"Ultimately, Brantly chose not to abstain from this vote and voting against it is also not neutral." said DAO member Eric Hu, who voted to remove Millegan. "He falls short even with his own ideals [...] For all the talk about credible neutrality and infrastructure building, is It would have been the time to refrain, but he chose self-preservation.โ
This infrastructure is too crucial for what could be the next chapter of the Internet. Regardless of your beliefs, you have simply exhibited poor leadership in an already contentious space that already satisfies the grounds for removal. The horrible policy has simply revealed the poor fit.
-Eric Hu (_EricHu) March 5, 2022
Some claimed that the DAO governance model was flawed when it came to a decision that affected its leadership. While ENS founder and developer Nick Johnson announced on February 7 that True Names Limited, the non-profit organization behind ENS, had terminated Millegan's contract as COOhe voted in the DAO to abstain with the approximately 253,000 tokens he controlled.
โBrantly voting is a clear conflict of interest, regardless of whether he is voting on behalf of his delegates,โ said Niel de la Rouviere on Twitter. โIn this case, their delegates should have voted as themselves. Directors who vote on their own removal are completely broken."
Others, including ENS co-founder Alex Van de Sande, argument that users "had plenty of opportunity to re-delegate" their votes before Millegan's removal proposal. However, some reported problems with transaction failures when they tried to change their delegation settings. At the time of publishing, it's unclear if Millegan has commented on the vote, but there has been no new activity on her Twitter account since her suspension on February 5.
"I am disappointed to see many other delegates talking in circles about 'neutrality' on this issue," said Jeff Coleman on Twitter. โAccepting or even endorsing an unjust status quo is not neutrality. I think we can and should do better."
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Launched in 2017, the ENS protocol allows users to register domain names ending in ".eth" and direct them to Ethereum wallet addresses. According According to data from CoinMarketCap, the price of the ENS token has fallen by approximately 8.6% since the vote ended on March 5, from $15.00 to $13.71 at press time.
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