The Agora
In the spirit of the Ancient Greek Agora, we invite you to join our vibrant community - a contemporary meeting place for the exchange of ideas, inspired by the practices of old. Just as the Agora served as the heart of public life in Ancient Athens, our platform is designed to be the epicenter of meaningful discussion and thought-provoking dialogue.
Here, you are encouraged to speak your mind, share your insights, and engage in stimulating discussions. This is your opportunity to shape and influence our collective journey, just like the free citizens of Athens who gathered at the Agora to make significant decisions that impacted their society.
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Community guidelines
New posts should begin with one of the following:
- [Question]
- [Discussion]
- [Poll]
Only moderators may create a [Vote] post.
Voting History & Results
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imaqtpie
My first order of business would be developing a more organized way of voting here. No offense to TheDude, he's got a lot on his plate.
Agreed. I think we need to separate the discussion from the vote. It’s confusing to have amendments take place on voting posts as discussion develops. We also need clear parameters on how to draft a vote and then how the vote gets resolved.
I think a parliamentary system could work well, though that's complicated.
Maybe some strawpoll site that requires authentication? Link your account, have it approved, then vote.
That’s perhaps one of the better ways of doing it.
I’m seeing the desire for both verification of users (with accounts on this instance) and for the protection of anonymity. It’s possible to provide both those things at the same time, but I don’t see how we can do so on the native server.
Perhaps we can have a separate community just for voting, maybe call it Polling Station?
And if it's possible, have a bot invite users of this instance to the community. Have the bot set to only invite users that are 1 week old and with X number of comments to combat the spam and bot accounts. The account age limit can be whatever we want, since most of us aren't quite a week old ourselves.
Once the mod vote is over we should probably create a Discussion post for this.
At the very least, make it standard to start one thread "Vote upcoming: discussion below" and then later on open the polls.