[Blockchain News] To democratize online governance systems, the key is to incentivize long-term citizen participation through rewards. The current Web3 governance system mainly uses tradable tokens, but this approach has limitations, such as a tendency towards oligarchy, lower resistance to Sybil attacks, and incentives to sell tokens to exit. To overcome these limitations, we need to look beyond token voting. In this article, the authors contrast reputation-based and token-based reward systems for governance participation, outline the various factors that need to be considered in these governance reward systems, and explore how these rewards are earned and what power they might translate into.