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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Chiefpacman ago

I like this, keep it in a controlled area. So many people have good points about potential issues, ways of fixing them (which bring up other issues..)

The best thing to do, would be to roll it out and test it first. Hash out the final product. Only thing is, I wouldn't start with just voatdev. Start with v/whatever, so we can see how it does against the bots/shill/alts and just more general users.

go1dfish ago

/v/whatever doesn’t need rules beyond the sitewide rules.

Chiefpacman ago

I didn’t say it did.

Me and you could vote not to add rules.

go1dfish ago

Putting the option of rules on the table makes it inevitable that’s they will eventually be added.

Democracy does not justify coercion or censorship.

Chiefpacman ago

Our basically absent admin is implementing a new site policy; where the community decides.

Its yet to be seen if it’s permanent.

Your naysaying on whether or not our King should grant us this sovereignty; doesn’t really matter. It’s his to give, and collectively ours to use.

Like it or not, that’s the facts. I will voat with you not to add rules though, as well as 99% of the community from my experience