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I really wish I'd used contest mode instead of a poll. Some people were upset and confused about the result, but I really do want to do whatever the majority of the community who's engaged enough to vote about it prefers.
I have my own opinions of course, but I'm trying to be realistic. I don't think shutting down communities permanently is a good approach, and completely moving a community to a new place never quite works. I don't plan to move away from Reddit entirely and will continue to participate as long as there's a friendly community there and old.reddit remains usable.
I do, however believe Lemmy is a better approach than Reddit going forward, and I will be de-emphasizing Reddit in some ways TBD.
How would contest mode have improved the outcome? Right now this whole vote feels like a sham, as the mods didn't like how it was going so they skewed the results by adding two opinions together. If you don't want to be there anymore I encourage you to seek out someone else to take your spot instead of just restricting the community and walking away.
Contest mode would have improved the outcome because it is possible to vote on every option, so the vote is not split between similar options.
If I wanted to run a poll where people can only pick one option and make sure option B wins even if option A might be more popular, I could do this:
I realized I had done exactly that by accident so I changed it the best way I could think of at the time.
Nobody intends to restrict the community and walk away. As long as the community is restricted, there will be a poll at least weekly. In the mean time, welcome to Lemmy. It's smaller, but growing, and we have fun stuff like comments with direct image uploads.
I want to say that most would agree with how you ended up doing the poll, but this is clearly a pretty polarizing issue for the entirety of Reddit. I do hope that most members of the community can at least give you the benefit of the doubt considering the time and effort you’ve put into keeping the sub a beneficial and helpful place.
At any rate, we’re only looking at a few more days and then another round of voting and it sounds like you’ve figured out how to run a better poll next time. I know I appreciate you and Zeroair—and now you and Adair, looks like—for working to keep up with a place to discuss and learn about the hobby.
Thanks. I've definitely gained some additional respect for the people who run real elections.
I'd vote for you.