Poll Contributors / Managers

Hi SG,

We added a couple of new roles to the site the other week as a way for users to write polls for our homepage. The overall goal is to try and introduce additional content into the site for the community to engage with and discuss. Community polls seemed like a good place to start since most of the infrastructure already exists on SG.

The new roles are...

• Poll Manager
• Poll Contributor

We also have two new discussion categories...

• Community Polls
  This category is visible to everyone, but only Poll Managers and Poll Contributors are able to create discussions here. Everyone is allowed to comment. Our homepage is setup to automatically feature the latest open poll that has been created in the past 3 days to this category. It will also link to the corresponding discussion.

• Community Polls (Ideas)
  This category is visible to users with the Poll Manager and Poll Contributor role (along with the support team) as a place for them to brainstorm and schedule upcoming community polls.

How It Works

1. The support team and myself will assign a few Poll Managers.
2. Poll Managers work together to build a team. The size of the team is up to them, but for example this could be 5, 10, or 50 people. They add/remove users to the team by visiting user profiles and assigning the user to the Poll Contributor role.
3. Poll Contributors and Poll Managers discuss and schedule upcoming polls using the Community Polls (Ideas) forum category. We'll have some general guidelines for polls (e.g. no political polls) but I'm flexible with the content and it can be gaming, off-topic, trending topics, etc.
4. Ideally this team could arrange a new poll every 1-3 days to keep the content fairly fresh on the homepage.
5. When it's time for a poll to go live, they create the poll in the Community Polls forum category (the same way any discussion is created).
6. The poll will automatically be featured on the homepage for up to three days and it will link to the discussion that is available to everyone.

If you're interested in joining either role then drop a comment below. We'll choose a few Poll Managers and they can use this discussion to find interested users in building the initial team. I have no idea how well this will work, but I know there are a lot of creative people here and I think it could be fun to have users more involved in content creation for the homepage!