# Rewarding Active Participation in OpenGov: Stake & Vote Proposal

**URL:** <https://forum.polkadot.network/t/rewarding-active-participation-in-opengov-stake-vote-proposal/12800>\
**Category:** Governance\
**Created:** [May 3, 2025, 12:44pm UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/rewarding-active-participation-in-opengov-stake-vote-proposal/12800 "2025-05-03T12:44:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![optr](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forum.polkadot.network/optr/32/7367_2.png) [@optr](https://forum.polkadot.network/u/optr)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 12:52pm UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/rewarding-active-participation-in-opengov-stake-vote-proposal/12800/2 "2025-05-03T12:52:40Z")

</div>

Goodhart’s law says: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”.

There is a danger of creating bad incentives, if you simply reward someone for voting.

If you truly put in energy in evaluating proposals, that’s different, but I think above mentioned `participation_score` can’t measure that.

---

_[View the full topic](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/rewarding-active-participation-in-opengov-stake-vote-proposal/12800)._