Consequences of the vote

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9.2.4 Consequences of the vote

If quorum has been reached in a dispute vote, and the ‘change’ side won, then the variable in question is changed, but only if the reputation that voted for this outcome is more than previous votes on the same variable (see Section 9.2.5). If the ‘keep’ side won, then the variable is not changed. In either case, alongside the variable that may or may not have been changed, the fraction of total reputation in the colony that voted for the winning side is noted.
At the conclusion of the poll, losing stakers receive 0-90% of their staked tokens back and they lose the complementary percentage of the reputation that was required to stake. The exact amount of tokens they receive back (and therefore reputation they lose) is based on:

• The fraction of the reputation in the colony that voted.
• How close the vote ultimately was.
  At the end of a vote, if the vote was very close, then the losing side receives nearly 90% of their stake back. If the vote is lopsided enough that the winning side’s vote weight (w) reaches a landslide threshold (L) of the total vote weight, then they receive 0% of their staked tokens back. L varies based on the fraction of total reputation in the colony that voted (R):

L = 1 - R / 3

So for a small vote with little reputation in the colony being allowed to vote, the decision has to be close to unanimous for the losing side to be punished harshly. For a vote of the whole colony, the landslide threshold L reduces to 67% of the votes — i.e. the reputation of the colony overall was split 2-to-1 on the decision.
Between these extremes of a landslide loss and a very slim loss, the loss of tokens and reputation suffered by the losing side beyond the 0.1 minimum (�delta) varies linearly:

and so the total loss (0:1 + �delta) varies between 0:1 and 1.