Alpha Preview: Voat Votes (voatdev)

submitted ago by PuttItOut

I am going to start getting community feedback regarding the new Vote infrastructure we have been working on. When we release this feature, it will be a huge change for Voat, one I think will truly make Voat a community. I have always longed to empower the community content producers (submitters and commenters) rather than to centralize moderator power. It has always bothered me that a community can be hijacked by a single person or small group. It is my hope that this feature will make us all stakeholders and prevent some of the most obvious problems with platforms such as these.

This feature will introduce a ton of “what if” scenarios and we need to start thinking about the details in order that we introduce a solid feature.

Now that the disclaimer is out of the way we need to accomplish two things:

  1. We need to start testing the functionality that is present to ensure we don’t have any gaps in functionality that we will need.

  2. We need to start a dialog to find all the weak links and scenarios that this feature will introduce.

Work Flow

  1. Create and Edit Votes (Votes are private until you "publish" it and can be found in your profile under Votes tab).
  2. Publish Vote (This creates a submission to the subverse and allows others to see it, comment, and vote on it)
  3. When the Vote is "closed" the system will execute it, meaning the outcomes will be executed (Not implemented yet)

Create a new Vote:

In Subverse sidebar click "Create Vote"

https://preview.voat.co/v/whatever/vote/create

Find your Votes:

Click your profile name > then click Votes

To see Votes in a sub:

In Subverse sidebar click "View Votes"

https://preview.voat.co/v/whatever/votes

I will be answering questions in this post so if you have a question just comment and I'll get back to you.

Thanks Voat.

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Le_Squish ago

Will Votes have a time delay for how often they can be activated in a subverse?

Will there be a limit on how many Votes an account can initiate?

Will there be a way to differentiate between casual votes (CSS change) and serious Votes (mod removal).

I don't want the usual crew spamming subverses with request for mod removals and rule changes but there needs to be room for less serious things to be changed as much a subverse participants would enjoy.

PuttItOut ago

First let's distinsquish between the Vote types: We have regular votes/polls (Votes with no outcomes) and Outcome Votes (votes that have a mod, rule, etc. change associated with them). In code these are called outcomes so I've started calling them Outcome Votes (someone rename these please).

I wanted to design Votes so the community can use them for polling all the way to serious issues like ousting a bad mod.

Outcome votes will have to be limited. I won't allow 100 outcome votes to be active in a sub, that's ridiculous.

My original thought was to allow a user to create 1 vote every 30 days and allow mods a few more.

Open to all ideas but this has to be figured out.

Le_Squish ago

I'm glad to see you have considered this already.

My original thought was to allow a user to create 1 vote every 30 days and allow mods a few more.

Sounds good to me!

Outcome votes will have to be limited. I won't allow 100 outcome votes to be active in a sub, that's ridiculous.

Can the logic support voting to activate an outcome vote?

Also, how was dinner?

PuttItOut ago

You might be a super hero: A vote to create an outcome vote.

That is very interesting and I am going to engage in some mental vote foreplay now.

Le_Squish ago

Yah! I'm helping!