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 just want to express that I’d like to see more rules around what constitutes a legit vote, and a better format for voting than a stream of ‘ayes’ and ‘nays’ comments (many people just upvote the first ‘aye’ and consider that vote).
I like the discussion > poll > vote mechanic you described. Maybe poll and vote are the same step though?
Thinking about it, if we get a proper polling system in place, that solves the issue of tons of Ayes and Nays and also additional up/down voting.
I had considered voting to be a single issue topic with a binary y/n outcome, with polling used to refine ideas, but there’s no reason you couldn’t have polling also be single issue but with multiple outcomes.
That way you can use the polling system to get feedback on potential voting topics and also for the vote itself.
oh I get it now, yeah I like that a lot