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clusmore | 2 years ago

It is _extremely_ unlikely that the highest ranked post will get even a majority of users having upvoted it, much less a majority of people - first past the post voting rarely achieves a majority even with only a handful of candidates to choose from. If you're curious about this as an experiment, my suggestion is to start much smaller and less divisive than world politics with infinitesimally small market penetration. Try your neighborhood, school or organization where you have a hope of double digit market penetration and some hope of getting buy-in from the decision makers you are trying to influence.

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Fairtalk|2 years ago

By "majority", I mean the majority of all users within the app. For each message, there's a total of 3 voting options to choose from (+) (=) (-). Each user can only vote once for every post because we've built a verification system that only allows verified users to vote. Other platforms will charge a 7$/month fraudulent fee for your account to get verified, on Fairtalk it's completely free.

Voting (+) gives the message a score of +1 Voting (=) gives the message a score of +0 Voting (-) gives the message a score of -1

At the end of 7 days, the message that received the highest score gets saved and archived on our platform forever. So yes the message that gets archived everyday is always chosen by the majority of users on the platform.

When you open the app, there's a home screen where all messages can be filtered in different ways (highest score, most recently sent, National countries, voting cycles, etc.)

By default, messages are filtered by highest score so users know which messages are about to get archived and if they disagree with that message then they can always cast a (-) vote to decrement its score by -1 so that another message gets archived instead.

It's a very simple system that works very similar to a democracy but instead of voting for a politician to represent you, we're instead voting for the best ideas and messages that were shared on the platform.

Hope that makes sense, cheers my friend.

clusmore|2 years ago

To clarify my point, especially in politics there is a good chance that the post with the highest score might not even have support from a majority of people who voted (it could be 45+/15=/40-, so 45% support), might not even be voted on by a majority of the people who see it (10% of views vote, so that's 4.5% of viewers support), might not even be viewed by a majority of users (10% of all users view the post, so 0.45% of all users support), and a majority of electors are not users of your app (generously 10% market penetration is now 0.045% of electors support). I'm not sure decision makers would take these numbers seriously until you get huge market share and huge engagement/participation. I would suggest starting in much smaller markets where you can increase those percentages dramatically, and then expand from there.