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A voting process determines whether a community is public or private. A public community appears on the Discover page in
Communities, while a private community does not.
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.
Status does not charge you any fees for voting.
Voting involves five steps. These steps are not required for every voter.
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.
Open your wallet and verify the Optimism network is checked.
Open the dApp and select from the top navigation.
You may need to connect your wallet again when you revisit the dApp depending on your browser settings.
Initiate a vote if there isn't an ongoing vote for the community you want to add or remove. If there is an ongoing vote, cast your vote .
You need the community's public key .
From the top navigation of the dApp, select . Enter the community's public key.
Choose the amount of SNT to stake and select Confirm vote to add community
. Select Create vote to add community
. From your wallet, confirm and pay the gas fee.
From the top navigation of the dApp, select . Find the community you want to remove and select next to the community name. Choose the amount of SNT you want to stake for voting and select Confirm vote to remove community
. From your wallet, confirm and pay the gas fee.
The voting period lasts for 14 days.
From the top navigation of the dApp, select . Find the community you want to vote for and select or for adding, or or for removing. Choose the amount of SNT to stake.
Select Vote to not add community
or for adding. Select or for removing. From your wallet, sign the vote.
After voting, a seven-day verification period begins for identifying valid votes.
Open the dApp and find the vote to verify.
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.
Open the dApp and find the vote to finalize.
From your wallet, confirm and pay the gas fee.
After finalization, the community is added or removed from Discover based on the voting result.