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 :)
I think it should be this way: Some percentage of people is minimum. Maybe around 20-30%. Counting votes - would be nice if we had bot for it cause we don’t have functionality for polls and votes in Lemmy rn, but now it seems like only reasonable way to count votes is straight up Ctrl+F Aye and Nay, count all comments from instance users and edit post/make a pinned comment. Maybe if there is any not lazy developer we will have really nice bot that checks all the marks.