# Updating Governance Settings

## Updating Snapshot Governance Settings

To update Snapshot Governance Settings, follow the following steps:

**Step 0: Connect you wallet, go to the Governance page for your Organization, and click the 'Governance Settings' Tab.**

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**Step 1: In the Governance Settings section at the top, click 'Edit'**

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**Step 2: Configure your Snapshot Governance Settings**

> **Who can Create Snapshot Governance Actions?**
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> Members with at least \_ Voting Power: Restricts creating Polls and Snapshot Proposals to only users with at least a certain amount of voting power, as determined by the defined Voting Power Calculation.
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> Only Admins and Badge Holders: Only admin users and users with a badge that has Create Snapshot Permissions will be able to create new Forums, Polls, and Snapshot Proposals.
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> **Voting Power Calculation to user for Create Permission Calculation**
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> If Members with at least \_ Voting Power is selected for who can create Snapshot Governance Actions, this field is used to select which Voting Power calculation to use.
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> **Minimum Voting Power to Create Polls and Bounties?**
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> If Members with at least \_ Voting Power is selected for who can create Snapshot Governance Actions, this field is where the minimum voting power required is configured.
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> **Require Membership to Vote**
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> Yes: Only users who have completed the New Member Application Workflow will be eligible to vote.
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> No: Any user with relevant voting power can vote on Snapshot Governance Actions.
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> **Require Approval Before Publishing Snapshot Governance Actions?**
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> For organizations where anyone with a certain voting power can create Polls, this setting requires Polls and Snapshot Proposals to go through an approval process before being released to the public for a vote.
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> For Organizations where only admins and badge holders can create Polls, this setting can still be added to require multiple admins to approve a Poll or Snapshot Proposal before going live.
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> **How Many Users Must Approve a Snapshot Governance Action?**
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> If approval is required before publishing Snapshot Governance Actions, this is the field to configure how many admin users or users who have a badge with the Approve Snapshot Permission must approve a Pending Governance Action before it goes live.
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> **Approval Period**
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> If approval is required before publishing Snapshot Governance Actions, this is the field to configure how long a new Snapshot Governance Action has to reach the approval threshold to go live. If it does not reach the threshold in this time, it will be archived.

**Step 3: Save your changes.**

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## Updating Agora Governance Settings

To update Agora Governance Settings, follow the process of [creating-a-proposal](https://docs.clarity.vote/clarity-v1/participating-in-a-dao/creating-a-proposal "mention"). Updating Agora Governance Settings is done through an Update Governance Action Agora Proposal, and must be passed through a DAO vote.