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  • Why would my way of counting the approval ratio rather than approval-only be of any disadvantage?

    That’s just how voting systems work. Even seemingly insignificant changes to the algorithm can have outsized impacts on how well it performs.

    Plurality versus Approval is a specific example of this. Just changing “choose one” to “choose as many as you approve of” significantly impacts the amount of data that’s captured and often the outcome because of the effects on voters’ behaviors.

    I liked the suggestion of more information. When we have it all figured out those details should be included as you suggested.


  • The community is at a different level than instances or federation. For example, the rules a community agrees on aren’t typically related to your instance or handled by the instance moderation team / admin.

    Every instance will have some kind of terms of use that you must follow to keep an account on that instance.

    A local community specifically for the bureaucracy of the local instance is also a special case.

    In general, posting / replying in communities should be encouraged no matter which instance the community or your account was created on.

    However, if you are breaking either your instance’s rules or causing problems for users on another instance you can expect to be reported and likely have some moderation actions taken against your account. Basically, just having an external account isn’t a license to behave badly.




  • I like some of those suggestions. However, I don’t think down voting or abstaining should be supported. You either support an option by up voting or you take no action.

    Approval voting systems have well studied behaviors and we should not deviate from that without a compelling reason.

    Every approval / upvote is a distinct user endorsement for an option. The option with the most users endorsing it should be selected when that number exceeds 51% of the active users set we decide on.