Voting Time!

[Zeita]

I would love to see a voting mechanic in game, that allowed an individual to set up a vote, possibly through a polca.

So:

Command:
vote initiate <subject>

Polca:
<title> Vote for a voting mechanic!
<initiator> Name of the person organising the vote. Could also extend this to allow others deeper insight into it as well, either as a co-organiser or an auditor.
<description> This is a vote for all people of the Merchant Guild to vote about whether to put in a voting mechanic!
<option1> Yes, I would like to see a voting mechanic.
<option2> No, voting sucks! Autocracy 'til I die!
<option3> I'd like to abstain for secretive reasons of secrecy.
<eligible> Merchant (here, you could put things like guild, guildleaders, class, ethnicity, gender, age, just flat out name people or any combination thereof)
<weighting> Here, I would like to be able to assign different weights to different votes. For example, if I look at the merchant guild, I would want to be able to assign a weight of 4 to a master and 2 to a journeyman to reflect and respect the impact of seniority.
<time> Time and date that the vote ends.
<public> Yes/no option here, also togglable to yes during voting, not during voting, yes after voting, not after voting.

People would ideally get an alert saying that there is a vote currently going on that they're eligible for and would also be able to use a command to list all current votes that they're eligible for.

Voting command:

vote <option#> <vote#> <description if wanted/needed>

When the voting is finished, the results are published:
<option1> Got 10 votes!
<option3> Got 7 votes!
<option2> Got 4 votes!

These are either published directly to the vote initiator(s) if not public, or posted to all voters if public.

Thoughts?

[Onyxsoulle]

I think this would be cool, I've wanted to be able to vote on some people getting voted higher(mainly when GL's are lacking). But one thing I would like is an ooc/ic option. This may be too much, but I think it might be relevant.

Example:

Orlando for Justiciar, OOCly don't have a problem with it, glad to finally get a Justiciar.

Icly, however, Terryn wouldn't actually want him in charge due to public events that had happened.

[Zeita]

Could def. have an OOC or IC flag for votes, could see the benefit of both.

I see this being particularly useful for intra-guild/class things like the royal council and also for internal guild resolutions, at least for the 'organisations for the members' like Troubs and Merchants.

[Inertia]

+1 for an in-game polling system. I've often wished I could open a poll of my own on the forums, or that there was a clean way to do it on Legacy, so I could get a feel for how players in general feel about X or Y in order to tweak some event idea or whatever.

For the OOC option, it could be cool to have it linked to the account rather than a single character so you don't run into the issue of people voting more than once and skewing results.

Regarding IC polls though, I worry that the efficiency of an essentially OOC system would make it too secure. I don't think it would come up all that much but I'd want there to be a mechanic to tamper with votes, if a pollster were so inclined.

[Zeita]

I'd be cool with a vote tampering option. Perhaps tied into forgery skill or something?

[Dice]

I don't know... this is kind of cool, but it seems like a ton of code for a system that is pretty easily done without it. Just on a sheer basis of gain for coding time this doesn't feel like it's very high value to me.

For OOC polls, I imagine we could just enable forum polls for people who AREN'T staffers.

[Kinaed]

Hmm.

Generally, I like it, if for no other reason than to be able to get a vote on stuff I want to know what people are thinking about.

It'd probably be good for guilds who want to initiate votes of no confidence as well.

Not sure if I'd do it precisely the way described, but I think it's pretty good.

*ponders some more*