I think polls are a great way to replace the “grant editorial” process in a decentralized way (at least to a certain degree). Basically the step that someone or the community looks at the proposal before the council needs to look into it in detail and decides about it. It’s more or less just an additional filter. I would recommend making this kind of mandatory/good practice for new treasury proposals. 

See the poll feature here: https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/121

- Polls are a way to make decisions in a decentralized way.
- They can be used to filter proposals before the council decides on them.
- It is recommended to use polls for new treasury proposals.
- You can see an example of a poll here: [link to the poll].

#140 Should teams create polls before they submit a treasury proposal?

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