[@shawntabrizi](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/user/shawntabrizi) has been working on the Participation Lottery Pallet, originally presented [here](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/242), for the past weeks. The original idea: a configurable, reoccurring lottery system that can be used to drive participation on the Kusama network, is now almost ready to be deployed. 

A participation lottery can be used to drive forward the following behavioural changes to the network by attaching a lottery to a specific extrinsic:

- Have more users share their voice on important elections. (`vote`)
- Have users change/update their validator nominations on a regular schedule. (`nominate`)
- Have more users join Society or other similar social experiments (`put_bid`)
- Encourage brainstorming of ideas in future updates and changes (`propose_bounty`)
- Have more users (change their) backing of (candidate) council members (`electionPhragmen,vote`)

You can find the original write up for the idea [here](https://hackmd.io/68rduBydTEy4X-ULevd90g).

The PR can be found [here](https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/7221).

Please leave your feedback, comments and questions on this post! And remember to vote on the poll to the right: should the pallet be deployed and tested on Kusama?



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- Shawntabrizi has been working on the Participation Lottery Pallet for the past weeks 
- This pallet was originally presented [here](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/242) and allows for a configurable, reoccurring lottery system to be used to drive participation on the Kusama network
- Lottery could be used to increase users participating in voting, changing validator nominations, join Society or other social experiments, brainstorm ideas, and back candidate council members
- Original write up for the idea can be found [here](https://hackmd.io/68rduBydTEy4X-ULevd90g)
- Pull request for the pallet can be found [here](https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/7221)
- Vote on the poll to decide if pallet should be deployed and tested on Kusama

#369 Reopening The Discussion: Participation Lottery Pallet in Kusama