@Nicholas @X could implement something so that when you are posting your verse the system forces you to vote on atleast two other battles or something from the pool of open battles, if you don't want to vote on that particular one there could be a skip button but it makes you vote on atleast two.

The problem with implementing some system that forces people to vote (like requiring votes to chat or post a battle) is that you just get shitty "fv" votes.

The best way to encourage voting is to encourage activity. People are more likely to vote when they have open battles and want votes themselves. The more people are battling, the more they are voting.

Uhm, exactly, so when you are posting your verse, which is what I suggested. People are going to do shitty fv votes anyways, they do it now, we can't stop that.

I would be worried this would put people off battling or as Aggo said increase the amount of bad votes.

Well, then you can't really increase voting. If you want to increase voting you have to force people to vote. Nothing else will work well, this site has tried for years. Incentives/credits don't work because there isn't a real credit shop that gives you anything worthwhile

Crews might be the key. The established members take in a few new heads and just encourage voting from them and as vets lead by example.

I like the idea of forcing active members to vote if they wanna battle I also do see how it can cause problems in the amount of hate or bs votes... I think first for starters the votes itself should b more monitored or atleast set something where the votes must be more explained ..I say that only based on this fact I've gotten votes for me & against me that only said crap like Fv... Or flipped a coin ... Then I go to the voters page & they are barely active... Some new account or a member that can't form a verse to save they life & jus voting to b voting ..

A few potential ways to get more voting going on would be to resize and edit the "Vote on this battle!" box to say something new & less easy to glance over. Also every time X did those "battle of the week" broadcasts near notifications I got over 15 votes. So definitely more of that.

Also in opposition to the above arguments of that proposed method potentially causing more shit "fv" votes, why not just limit the characters of the voting box to something like 10 (or more) characters minimum? With an actual message that says "Explain your vote!" when you try to post under that on some "fv gb" shit.

I said the character thing in the chatbox earlier today. That change would just make total sense.

I like this idea. I'm also making more of an effort to tag newcomers in the forums and get them involved. I think the forums are a big part of retaining members. Bringing them into the community so to speak.

So pretty much All VP should be the same for everyone.
Although, votes should still be deleted for lack of expo, self voting ect.

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Give the top voter like 5 $ a month or something idk, the credit reset would make the most sense.