Former ENS director of operations may remain at foundation after voting against his own removal
Many members of the Ethereum Name Service’s decentralized autonomous organization have voted in favor of allowing recently removed director of operations Brantly Millegan to stay on as the ENS Foundation director.
According to a tally of roughly 2.4 million ENS DAO users recorded as of Thursday, more than one million are against removing Millegan as director of the ENS Foundation. The users account for more than 42% of the vote, with 28.61% voting in favor of removing the ENS director and 29.29% abstaining with two days remaining to submit.
“The DAO shall decide whether Brantly Millegan is deemed capable, or otherwise, of continuing his role as the Director of the Foundation Company, and to appoint a suitable replacement if he is deemed incapable,” said the proposal.
However, many users pointed out that the DAO governance model was seemingly flawed when dealing with a decision affecting its leadership. Millegan used more than 363,000 tokens to vote against his own removal, many of which were delegated by DAO users prior to the controversy. ENS founder and developer Nick Johnson voted to abstain with roughly 253,000 tokens he controlled.
If the majority of the DAO users end up voting in favor of Millegan’s removal, a community proposal electing a new director would be effective immediately. The nominees include ENS co-founder Alex Van de Sande, and users under the names daylon.eth and healingvisions.eth.
“We can't let someone who is bigoted about a marginalized community stay the figurehead of a large web3 organization,” said healingvisions.eth on Twitter while encouraging DAO members to vote for Millegan’s removal.
Removed .eth from my name in protest. $ENS DAO seems highly centralized. @BrantlyMillegan voted for himself to
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