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 :)
if we do implement a quorum, I think we should allow abstain votes in addition to aye or nay, for folks who are neither for or against but want to help meet that threshold
Posting in the thread but not up voting any thing could work. And then possibly only count votes from people who posted? Easy enough to post “seconded” and upvote what you agree with or vice versa.
An abstain vote reduces the total number of votes required to pass anything. I would prefer valid voters be presumed to be against all of the options until they vote for any of the options.
I disagree, sometimes I want to be counted but don’t want to vote for an option, and I think that’s valid.