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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.

The discussion should really happen in another post before the voting. Possibly even in another community.

The order you see the options that exist on the ballot should not matter.

This proposal doesn’t involve down voting any options at all.

Excess should be used for bounties to get features we want implemented added to Lemmy.

A high enough bounty and they can hire a part-time developer to work on our selected improvement.

Nay

Indeed.

After creating an account and agreeing to follow the rules they aren’t an outsider anymore.

Why would it matter to you if the people who do have an account here voted to add a new rule then?

Your own instance has the set of rules you need to follow. Do you want to let us decide what those will be?

I don’t want people who haven’t agreed to follow the same set of rules deciding what the rules are that I must follow.

It’s like how much of the world decided it didn’t enjoy colonial rule so much.

Ugh. That was satire, not a playbook.

I think discussion should be open to anyone, but voting should only be by those who will be bound by the changed rules.

People with accounts on other instances have their own sets of rules to be concerned with and are not obligated to follow the rules decided on and implemented by this instance.