Making the system non-binding wouldn’t be that good a test, as there would be much less incentive to bias the decisions to your own personal benefit. There are a couple of compromises with majority vote that could be used to prevent a small group doing this. One, put an upper and lower limit on the value of each vote, so that no votes are worth more than (for example) ten times any vote. Two, allow people voting against a proposal to mark their votes as vetoes, and some number of vetoes, maybe 66%, being enough to veto the proposal. 2B, allow the same thing to be done in favour of the proposal (may be less important than preventing bad proposals passing).
Making the system non-binding wouldn’t be that good a test, as there would be much less incentive to bias the decisions to your own personal benefit. There are a couple of compromises with majority vote that could be used to prevent a small group doing this. One, put an upper and lower limit on the value of each vote, so that no votes are worth more than (for example) ten times any vote. Two, allow people voting against a proposal to mark their votes as vetoes, and some number of vetoes, maybe 66%, being enough to veto the proposal. 2B, allow the same thing to be done in favour of the proposal (may be less important than preventing bad proposals passing).