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:
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We need to start testing the functionality that is present to ensure we don’t have any gaps in functionality that we will need.
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We need to start a dialog to find all the weak links and scenarios that this feature will introduce.
Work Flow
- Create and Edit Votes (Votes are private until you "publish" it and can be found in your profile under Votes tab).
- Publish Vote (This creates a submission to the subverse and allows others to see it, comment, and vote on it)
- 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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70times7 ago
Who is paying for Voats server?
PuttItOut ago
Some remaining bitcoin and we reduced costs.
You will see more monetization efforts very soon.
cynicaloldfart ago
Please put effort into getting a processor so we can use gift cards. A small minority aren't young and hip with Ecoins but still want to do our part.
fusir ago
It's so easy though. Just use coinbase.com to get some. Then just like paypal you can sign in and send money to an address. Just try it with five dollars.
Actually I think CEX.io and Kraken.com have next to zero fees
cynicaloldfart ago
I guess I worded that improperly. This was an option several years ago. It's not a matter of ease or that I'm not smart enough to use them. I simply prefer not to. This has come up before and a few others indicated they also wish to have this option. However, I understand it is somewhat of a difficulty for Putt after the last processor bailed.
BUTTHOLE__EMPRESS ago
I still don't get why we can't have a physical address or PO box to send money to, checks or wire money. Taxes aside it's certainly better to have the money received than not.
Crensch ago
"Send money to my P.O. box, where ((())) will wait with needles to shove in my neck and disappear me."
BUTTHOLE__EMPRESS ago
SaneFaggot already doxed him anyone with a small amount of resources could track him.
Also bank acct where it could be wired would work.