Proposal (2/2): Monthly Community poll on 5 featured artists
Description:
Monthly, all active members may participate in a quadratic voting poll to vote for 5 artists to be featured on the platform’s home page in the “featured artist” and hero banner for the subsequent month.
Should a quadratic voting solution not be available, members may vote using the built-in poll functionality in the forum.
Why:
The site has a hero banner pulled from the featured artists, and a featured artists section, but no mechanism for the community to choose what artist(s) to feature.
How to artists get nominated for this? A thread on the forum??
How to pick what artists to remove? Not sure on this either. Perhaps all are put up to vote, with the artists from previous months on the ballot by default.
Why quadratic? To give the members an opportunity to strongly support a particular artist.
Why 5? The each row of featured artists allows 5 artists.
Artist-owners recently voted on how to prioritize the rollout of numerous site features. To do so, they were all invited to a special election using a method called quadratic voting. It’s a complex but highly effective form of voting that works best in situations that involve collective decision-making. (To learn more about the technicalities of quadratic voting, visit the website for the RadicalxChange Foundation.) Artist-owners voted to prioritize four artist communication features from most to least urgent: Click here and scroll down to “Event Votes” to see the results. That’s now the order in which Ampled’s developers will work on improving them.
My feeling for monthly is that participation is low and probably will stay low for a while, and the pool of voters should be larger than the pool of nominators
Popularity Contest
For me, this is a feature, not a bug, and with some rules/structure/goals it could be a non-issue.
Lets do some popularity contest nightmare scenarios. A charismatic artist decides they want to get on the featured list for whatever reason, and:
…sends their sizable mailing list to become members and vote them to the top. Unless there’s something severely problematic about the artist, the coop only wins. There’s more members, more engagement, and some of the rabid fans might stick around.
…starts annoyingly spamming the forum with links to their music. This behavior might not with them any points, but could reveal where some forum management weaknesses. Nobody really wins here and it gets uncomfortable.