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
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…