What kind of threshold should a vote have to pass before being implemented? Do we really want to be making changes based on a vote that only got one “Aye”? Ten Ayes? Over 50% of the user base?
What kind of vote engagement can we reasonably expect to achieve? Is it actually likely that 50% of the user base will engage with any particular vote? Are there any useful presidents out there?
Who should be responsible for counting the votes when they’re over? Perhaps the OP tallies the votes and edits the post?
Is there an easy test the mods can apply to a tallied vote to allow them to check whether it’s passed? Something that is not open to interpretation and results in a clear directive to make a change?
I’m also kind of testing out this discussion format as a way of generating things to vote on i.e DISCUSSION > POLL > VOTE seems to make sense.
We’ll see :)
Yeah, I don’t think 50% is realistic either, I’m just trying to work out if there’s a way of usefully measuring engagement.
It may be that expressing votes as a percentage of the user base it still helpful, it’s just that the threshold needs to be lower.
Or, what about measuring against subscribers to the Agora? The sidebar says we have 109 subscribers at the moment, the top post has 55 comments - that seems to be a more useful ratio.
sounds sensible
I think we should accept any proposal only after it exceeds 51% of the agora subscribers who are on this instance.
(Remember, federation means you can subscribe to this community from many instances.)