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# Activate Governance

Activating or Deactivating Governance enables community members to turn governance features on or off for each pool, affecting their ability to support proposals.

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Please be cautious when deactivating your governance. If you've allocated or supported proposals, deactivating will remove all your support from those proposals.
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