The current aye/nay system is cluttered and clunky. How about we allow comments in [discussion] posts and then have a separate [vote] post with a single comment for each option so people can choose up/down/abstain? Then nobody has to count anything, human or bot, or worry about typos, formatting, sarcasm, etc.
I also propose a minimum of 3 days, maximum of 1 week per each [vote], no time limits for discussion. You can choose when to start the official [vote] after discussion starts.
I don’t know if a separate post is required for that kind of mechanic and could instead just be comments made by the poster on the main thread.
I don’t know how well you could police voting through upvotes if we end up deciding we want to limit exactly who can vote or when they can vote. (I’m for all being able to vote, but may be swayed on when they can vote to be transparent)
We’re just about to agree on the condition that only members of this instance should be allowed to vote. I am afraid that your proposal might not be compatible with that at the moment…
Since votes are public, it’s probably possible to write a moderator tool to tally votes based on instance of the voter. As a developer, I’m happy to implement that if wanted.
If this is doable I would be for the proposal. Current system is transparent, but messy and a target for retaliation. Proposal with just upvotes / downvotes isn’t transparent (wanted in this case), but also allows for voting from users outside this server with no way to separate their votes out of the count. Though that hasn’t even been decided on definitively. In addition if a tool like this could be extended to incorporate more functions like finding minimum account age, comment/post requirements, etc. It could be very useful.
My suggestion here would allow for this:
This is a fantastic idea. Not sure about the time limits but the [vote] post seems like it would work really well
I don’t know if a separate post is required for that kind of mechanic and could instead just be comments made by the poster on the main thread.
I don’t know how well you could police voting through upvotes if we end up deciding we want to limit exactly who can vote or when they can vote. (I’m for all being able to vote, but may be swayed on when they can vote to be transparent)
Screen shot posted on the vote thread of the results at the expiration of the time?
We’re just about to agree on the condition that only members of this instance should be allowed to vote. I am afraid that your proposal might not be compatible with that at the moment…
Since votes are public, it’s probably possible to write a moderator tool to tally votes based on instance of the voter. As a developer, I’m happy to implement that if wanted.
If this is doable I would be for the proposal. Current system is transparent, but messy and a target for retaliation. Proposal with just upvotes / downvotes isn’t transparent (wanted in this case), but also allows for voting from users outside this server with no way to separate their votes out of the count. Though that hasn’t even been decided on definitively. In addition if a tool like this could be extended to incorporate more functions like finding minimum account age, comment/post requirements, etc. It could be very useful.
Something similar to your suggestion might work.
I made an example with more than two options.
https://sh.itjust.works/post/248271