Currently there is no rule for when a vote is over, or when the vote is tallied. I propose we allow 24 hours from post creation to allow everyone in the community to have a chance to see and consider a proposal and vote. After 24 hours from post creation, the ‘polls’ would close and the votes can be tallied. Any votes cast after 24 hours would be invalid.
Edit: some good points made, I withdraw this proposal
Locking post as the OP has decided to withdraw their proposal. May I suggest we create another discussion post to debate this further and circle back with another voting post at a later time.
Nay
I agree with the idea that there should be a limit to how long voting is open, for practical reasons, but I think 24 hours is far too short. People’s lives are unpredictable and you might not have the chance to properly consider a community like this in that timespan. I think this is an important consideration if we want to foster a community of inclusion. I think a reasonable minimum might be 72 hours, and I would recommend a period closer to seven days.
Nay. It should definitely be more than a day. If there is no limit there is no end to voting, but 24hrs is not long enough.
Nay. Needs a longer time. Maybe a week? Honestly if it’s not life and death it can probably wait a week. Also gives a chance for debate if needed.
Nay just cause I think bigger votes like blocking other instances should have a week or something since that’s a pretty big decision.
Nay for 24 hours, but I think you’re right that there should be a clearly defined time limit. Maybe two or three days so more people get a chance to vote?
Aye
Nay, I definitely agree in principal. I just think 24hrs is too short. Might be good to make this a poll?
1: 24hrs 2: 48hrs 3: a week?
Nay a week to give everyone a fair shot on voting.
I think we also need to agree some kind of engagement threshold for passing a vote. Do we really want to be implementing changes on an idea that only got 1 vote for example?
Presumably the mods make the call on whether a vote passes, but there should be a simple test that isn’t open to interpretation like 60% of the user base or something. So all they need to do is count the Ayes when the 24hr period ends and work that out as a percentage.
Maybe this needs to be it’s own vote at some point.
Perhaps a supermajority system? 50% approval should require at least consideration and response. A more overwhelming majority of support should perhaps carry more weight?
Agreed, I’ve started a discussion about this to keep everything together
As it grows it will be hard to reach a majority, we can’t force people to subscribe to the Agora as far as I know, so new users won’t even know it exists…
