• HandsHurtLoL@kbin.social
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    Hi @rdeets we just added official rules in the sidebar, and we have stipulations about adding a label (not a tag or badge) to all submission titles.

    Please read carefully and incorporate into future submissions. Thank you.

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      Are labels a kbin specific feature? I’m interacting with this magazine from Lemmy, and AFAIK, there’s no concept of tagging/labels here.

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        Thanks for asking @ptz. On kbin.social, there is an option in the link submissions form to add badges (similar to flair from reddit) or tags (hashtags to broadcast to the microblogging feature of the Fediverse). As of right now, the badges feature isn’t working properly - you can type in the name of a badge (I think it’s supposed to be a drop down menu, but is currently a text field) but it doesn’t show up in the submission anywhere.

        Our users were asked 2 weeks ago what rules they want in this space for moderation and multiple users expressed a desire to see labelling of some sort between news, opinion/editorialized, and analysis content. This is a unique community rule to the politics magazine on kbin.social based on solicited member comments.

        We ask that submissions include a label in the title like “News: [Article title as it appears on external site]”

        Hope this answers your question.

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          Gotcha, thanks! I’m still learning how all these different federated platforms work together / what features work where, etc.

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            I’m glad you asked this question, especially as a federated user. It draws attention for me that not all of the instances may have coding for badges, so even though I had hoped we could one day employ badges here on kbin.social, I’m realizing that we can’t make that a submission rule if federated users don’t even have that option.

            Also, it will depend on how you’re accessing the magazine (which is what all kbin instances call communities), as to whether the sidebar is viewable. I can only think of describing how to access the sidebar if you’re another kbin.social user accessing from mobile.

            These are realistic barriers to future plans I had wanted to roll out, so thanks for asking this question and shedding light on it for me.

            Tagging @Drusas if they’d like to weigh in.

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        It just means to start your title with a label such as “News:” or “Editorial:”. You can see details in the sidebar.

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          Gotcha. Sidebar here doesn’t have that info but clicking through to the kbin page shows them (not sure if they’re different things across platforms or just haven’t sync’d). That rule makes sense, just wasn’t sure how to comply with it.

          Still learning how all these different federated platforms work together / what features won’t work where, etc.

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            No worries, most of us are! And it’s a brand new rule in any case. Will take everyone some getting used to.

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      It is very secure. Washington state has been using it for years. Every single citizen gets a ballot mailed to them for every election. It does wonders to increase voter turnout (of course, high voter turnout is largely detrimental for Republicans in elections, so they don’t like this practice).

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      Actually it is probably more secure than voting machines.

      I have worked as a signature verifier for two elections in my state.

      1. There is a physical ballot and signature.
      2. For signature verification alone there are at least two people reviewing together each signature submitted with a ballot to match with multiple past signatures on file. The voting portion of the ballot is not seen by us, we only review the signature so there is no way to flag a signature based on how you vote. Any flagged signature goes up to further review by superiors.
      3. Ballots with votes that are not crystal clear to the tally machines (if you put an x in the vote bubble instead of filling it out, if you used a pencil/colored pen instead of a blue or black pen, erasures, etc) are physically reviewed in person by a team of two people and if still uncertain flagged and sent to review by superiors.
      4. Ballots put in the tally machines are manned by at least two people.
      5. Cameras are placed throughout the workplace.
      6. All ballots are locked behind chain link spaces when not in process.
      7. The ballot processing stations are in a secure space open space, anyone can come and watch as we work. You just can’t get closer than about 8 to 12 feet of the work spaces cordoned off by rope.

      The tldr, a lot of measures are in place to make sure everything is in the open, machines and people are double checking each other to prevent machine/human error/bias, and there is a evidence trail of paper/witnesses/logs/recording.