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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Broc_Lia ago

Even then I'm not sure he should: If he can be kicked out of /v/gunsarecool then anyone can be kicked out of any sub by anyone with enough alts. Migrating to /v/gunsarereallycool is more effective. The usefulness of hijacking a sub ends if people can migrate to another one with a secure mod team protecting it.

Owlchemy ago

Absolutely agree, and why I'm on the fence about this whole vote system in the first place, being the mod who jumped in to help save that whole situation with /v/gunsarereallycool after @paxNoctis created it, but then had to leave town for a spell (long story - LOL). Anyway, I know you don't get the 'pretty' sub name you may prefer, but I've always thought the easiest and best way around this entire situation concerning a$$hole mods destroying subs is the simplest ... just create a new user friendly replacement sub and let that other sub die on the vine.

Broc_Lia ago

Anyway, I know you don't get the 'pretty' sub name you may prefer, but I've always thought the easiest and best way around this entire situation concerning a$$hole mods destroying subs is the simplest ... just create a new user friendly replacement sub and let that other sub die on the vine.

Agreed. Someone even came up with a solution to the "default name" problem, but I can't find the comment. Basicly they suggested that subs receive random names and they broadcast their content to a tag, like "gunsarecool." The most popular sub gets to be the primary broadcaster to that tag. So if henrycorp takes over the dominant science sub, /v/science will very quickly point to a different sub.

Owlchemy ago

Yeah, I saw that idea too and it has merit. It just sounded complicated and I hate complicated - LOL.