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Vote to feature a Status Community
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on 30 Nov 2023

Status app is currently in beta stage
The Status app is currently in its beta stage. This means the application is still undergoing active development, and certain features described in this document may function differently or be unavailable within the app.

If you're passionate about a community and wish for more people to discover it, you can vote for it to be featured in Status app.

Up to five top communities get a spot in the Featured section in

Communities, making them more visible to everyone.

A screenshot of the Featured section in Communities

  • All SNT holders, not just community members or Status users, can participate in the voting.
  • Votes happen on the Community Directory Curation dApp.
  • Your voting power is determined by how many SNT tokens you stake. You don't spend the tokens to vote, but you must hold the tokens you stake during the verification and finalization periods.
  • You should pay a gas fee in ETH for initiating, validating and finalizing a vote.
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Status does not charge you any fees for voting.

A round of vote involves five steps. These steps are not required for every voter.

Voting stepWho can participateGas fee required
Connect your walletAny SNT holderNo
Initiate a voting processAny SNT holder, at least one personYes
Cast your voteAny SNT holderNo
Verify the voteAny SNT holder, at least one personYes
Finalize the voteAny SNT holder, at least one personYes
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To know more about the dApp and the rules of each step, check out About voting to change the community visibility.

Make sure you open the Community Directory Curation dApp and your wallet contains enough SNT for voting and ETH to pay for the gas fees.

The process is for Status Wallet, but you can also try other wallets like MetaMask.

  1. 1
    Open your wallet and switch the network to Optimism.
  2. 2
    Open the dApp and select
    Connect
    from the top navigation.
  3. 3
    From your wallet, confirm to connect.
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You may need to connect your wallet again when you revisit the dApp depending on your browser settings.

If you don't see the

Finalize weekly featured
option at the top of the Directory section in the dApp, you can start a new voting round. Otherwise, someone must finalize the vote first.

A round of vote starts when the first voter cast a vote.

The voting period lasts for five days. You can find the communities you like in the Directory section of the dApp and vote.

  1. 1
    From the top navigation of the dApp, select
    Directory
    to view all public communities.
  2. 2
    Find the community you want to vote for and select
    Feature this community!
  3. 3
    Choose the amount of SNT to stake and select
    Confirm vote to feature community
    .
  4. 4
    From your wallet, sign the vote.

After voting, a two-day verification period begins for identifying valid votes. If no one verifies the vote within this period, only the first vote of this round is counted.

  1. 1
    From the top navigation of the dApp, select
    Directory
    .
  2. 2
    Select
    Verify Weekly Featured
    .
  3. 3
    From your wallet, confirm and pay the gas fee.

After the verification period, at least one person must finalize the vote for it to reach a result. Otherwise, the current round of vote stays pending and no one can initiate a new round.

  1. 1
    From the top navigation of the dApp, select
    Directory
    .
  2. 2
    Select
    Finalize Weekly Featured
    .
  3. 3
    From your wallet, confirm and pay the gas fee.
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After the finalization period, up to five communities with the highest number of SNT tokens are showcased in the Featured section.