# Does the community pool have opinions?
**URL:** https://forum.osmosis.zone/t/does-the-community-pool-have-opinions/2690
**Category:** General
**Created:** [April 17, 2024, 9:21am UTC](https://forum.osmosis.zone/t/does-the-community-pool-have-opinions/2690 "2024-04-17T09:21:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@faddat](https://forum.osmosis.zone/u/faddat)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2024, 9:21am UTC](https://forum.osmosis.zone/t/does-the-community-pool-have-opinions/2690/1 "2024-04-17T09:21:37Z")
I should have realized this much earlier, but it seems that the osmosis community pool has developed a form of sentience, or something that cannot even have opinions has amassed very significant vote power on osmosis.
When the community pool chooses validators, what criteria does it use?
When the community pool is participating in a consensus failure situation, what aid does it provide?
When the community pool gets slashed, does it care?
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### Author:  [@RoboMcGobo](https://forum.osmosis.zone/u/RoboMcGobo)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2024, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.osmosis.zone/t/does-the-community-pool-have-opinions/2690/2 "2024-04-17T14:16:57Z")
Yes! I believe it does!
Or phrased a different way, is Osmosis a DAO?
If the answer to that question is yes (which imo of course it is), it’s clear to me that Osmosis, as a DAO, has certain rights, wants, and needs above and beyond the sum of its individual members, for example:
- Ownership of intellectual property: [GitHub - osmosis-labs/fee-abstraction](https://github.com/osmosis-labs/fee-abstraction)
- The right to collection of protocol revenue in its own community pool: [Mintscan](https://www.mintscan.io/osmosis/proposals/530)
- The right to make financial deals with counterparties: [Mintscan](https://www.mintscan.io/osmosis/proposals/655)
- The right to revoke financial deals previously made with counterparties: [Mintscan](https://www.mintscan.io/osmosis/proposals/772)
The Osmosis DAO, through the use and deployment of its treasury or otherwise, is quite opinionated (with over 700 gov proposals to show for it). As it should be, imo!