Can someone explain voting on Snaps?
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I'm a bit confused with how voting works on Snapzu with regards to the Snaps themselves. It seems that there are separate votes tracked for each Tribe the Snap appears in, as well as different tracking for voting on something on the Frontpage, as well as separate voting for Feeds (what does that even mean?).
Also, voting on something on the Frontpage seems to differ depending on whether the Snap was published to multiple Tribes or just one. Not to mention it can be hard to keep track of when I've upvoted something since it appears that voting on something on my Frontpage doesn't transfer to when I see that same Snap appear when browsing a specific Tribe.
So, is any of what I said above wrong? And why is it so complicated?
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Excellent question! Instead of trying to re-explain it, I dug into the good ol' Snapzu functionality write-ups logbook and found this gem that should explain everything! It's dated from Oct 2012, quite a long time ago!
Now... it may sound complicated but we feel that it improves on the current voting system used by that other site in the following ways:
1. Each tribe can have it's own vote score. This is important because it allows them to stay individually vote independent where no tribe can piggyback off another tribes or even the front page's votes.
2. It removes a lot of the luck element in voting. Snaps have multiple chances to succeed especially if submitted to the max allowed tribes. If you get a down vote in one tribe, you are still at the original score in the others. You would have to be down voted from all the tribes, and that usually means it's poor content.
3. Users can easily discover similar tribes because the tribes are listed in the snap, along with on the front page list.
I hope this answers your question!
Edit: The original write-up mentions an "other" source. This has basically been renamed to the "front page" source (as shown on the right of each snap, where the tribes are listed). It makes more sense for new ...
Read FullThanks for the explanation! I'm sure it's just something I'll have to get used to.
I would also like to know this.