How Voddit works
Voddit is a place to share ideas for your state or the whole country and find out which ones people actually want. Every state and the District of Columbia has its own board, and the USA board is for nationwide ideas.
Voting
Upvote ideas you'd like to see happen. Downvote ideas you think would make things worse. Click an arrow again to take your vote back. Other members see an idea's total score, not who voted.
Boards are sorted by Hot by default, which balances score with freshness so new ideas get a fair shot. You can also sort by New or Top.
Posting
To post, vote on 5 ideas first, up or down, on any board. After that, posting is unlocked for good. Taking part before you post keeps the boards for people who care about them, and makes spam and bot posting much harder.
One human, one account
When you sign up you confirm: “I am a human and this will be my only account.” Bots and duplicate accounts distort the votes, so they aren't allowed.
Post length limits
We set our limits by looking at how similar sites handle it:
| Site | Title | Text |
|---|---|---|
| Hacker News | 80 characters | — |
| We the People (White House petitions) | 120 | 800 |
| Stack Overflow | 150 | 30,000 |
| Lemmy | 200 | 10,000 |
| 300 | 40,000 | |
| Voddit | 10–150 | up to 10,000 |
Titles of 150 characters leave room for a specific idea without the run-on headlines that feeds cut off anyway. 10,000 characters is about 1,500 words. That's plenty to explain a problem and a solution, and much more than the 800 characters that petition writers found too short for complex issues.
Each idea can also have one link (up to 2,000 characters).
Moderation
Anyone with an account can report an idea that breaks the Content Policy. Moderators review reports, remove ideas that break the rules, and suspend accounts that keep doing it.
Berkeley Voddit
berkeley.voddit.com is a board just for Berkeley. Anyone can read it. To vote or post there, connect a berkeley.edu Google account, and keep the username you use on voddit.com. Berkeley ideas only appear on Berkeley Voddit. It isn't run by, or affiliated with, the University of California, Berkeley.
Brand Voddit
brand.voddit.com has a board for each of the 100 largest companies in the world by market value. Anyone with a Voddit account can post ideas for them and vote, with the same username as on voddit.com. Brand ideas only appear on Brand Voddit. Voddit isn't affiliated with these companies, and their names are trademarks of their owners.
Who runs Voddit?
Voddit is an independent community site. It isn't run by, or affiliated with, any state or federal government, and no one is obliged to act on an idea because it's popular here. It's a way to show what people want.