The goal of this proposal is to create a new bot to help increase the overall visibility of Polkdex’s governance mechanism and encourage user participation in referendums. This will be done by introducing a new [@pdex_governance](https://twitter.com/pdex_governance) twitter bot that will automatically inform the community when important events are occurring. Users can then retweet or share the announcements to increase referenda visibility and proposers will have better chances at reaching quorum.

The bot will initially include support for the following announcement types:

🏦 New treasury proposal #159 has been submitted for 2394.81 PDEX

🏛️ New council motion #253 submitted (treasury.approveProposal)

🏛️ New technical committee proposal #24 submitted (democracy.fastTrack)

🏦 Treasury proposal #160 has been approved by the Polkadex Council

🗳 New proposal #99 has been submitted for community endorsement

🗳 Referendum #226 is now up for community voting

⏳ Referendum #226 has 24 hours left for voting!

⌛ Referendum #226 has only one hour left for voting!

✅ Referendum #226 has been approved by community voting

⛔ Referendum #226 did not pass community voting

Posts will be linked directly to referenced item on Polkassembly.

Example:
[https://twitter.com/pdex_governance/status/1567238555335794688](https://twitter.com/pdex_governance/status/1567238555335794688)
![](https://i.ibb.co/nzJGvfv/Screen-Shot-2022-09-07-at-11-43-33-AM.png)


**Sept 5 Update**:  We have decided to also include Reddit support in this initial release. All of the same notifications will also be posted to [r/Polkadex](https://www.reddit.com/r/polkadex/) by the [pdex_governance](https://www.reddit.com/user/pdex_governance/) reddit user. Targeting both social networks will ensure maximum visibility into governance matters.

**Sept 7 Update**:  A few additional announcement types were added to the previous list (tech committee proposals for example, 24h reminder for referenda, etc.)

The development of the bot is already in progress and a basic proof of concept is starting to wrap up (work still needs to be done in incorporate a lot of the different types of alerts). This proposal seeks funding for the amount of $3,000 for the development and setup work. There will be no operational costs.

This draft is being created to gauge interest from the community before submitting any actual requests on chain.

I encourage you to leave your comment below.

- They want to create a bot to help people know about important events in Polkdex's governance.
- The bot will post announcements on Twitter and Reddit.
- The announcements will be about things like new proposals and referendums.
- They are asking for money to develop the bot.
- They want to know if people are interested in this idea.

#838 Draft Proposal: Polkadex Governance Bot