A reaction-emoji poll is public, gives you a bare count, and is trivially brigaded. This template runs the vote the way a community should decide things: an anonymous ballot so people answer honestly, and a why-question for everyone who takes a side so you keep the reasoning behind the result.
Reach for it whenever the community, not the mods alone, should make the call: a server rule change, how to spend a community fund, whether to run an event, approving a new moderator, a DAO-style proposal.
The reasoning is the point
An anonymous For, Against, or Abstain vote gives you the real split. Then skip logic sends For-voters to “what makes this worth doing?” and Against-voters to “what is your main concern?”, so you leave with the arguments on both sides. A quick strength read lets you weigh a passionate minority against a lukewarm majority.
The example runs as a weekly game-night proposal. Swap it for your own motion and the whole flow adapts.
Variants
- Threshold framing: state the passing bar up front (“needs 60% For to pass”) so voters know the stakes.
- Multi-option proposal: replace For/Against/Abstain with competing options and add a why-branch per option.
- Vote of record: switch to semi-private for an accountable delegate vote where names should be attached.
- Recurring governance: run it on a schedule to keep big decisions in the community’s hands.