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 would have the bot work like this:
Find the total subscribed agora users.
Find the number of agora subscribers from this instance.
Assume every user from the local instance votes nay, then start reading replies.
For each reply, if the local subscriber uses the “aye” tag, change their vote to aye and record the timestamp for that reply.
A later reply with the “nay” tag should be able to undo that user’s previous approval.
The bot should report the counts each day and a final summary after the voting period has ended.
If it’s not over 51%, then the vote should fail to pass.