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Vote to make a community private or public
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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.

  • Every SNT holder can participate in all voting steps, not just community members or Status users.
  • Your voting power is determined by how many SNT tokens you stake.
  • You don't spend the tokens to vote but must hold the tokens you stake during the verification and finalization voting periods.
  • Each time there are 400 more users (counted by wallet accounts) voting, one user or two different users need to do an extra round of verification and finalization.
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Status does not charge you any fees for voting.

Voting 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 community visibility.

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

This process applies to Status Wallet, but you can also try other wallets, such as MetaMask or Trust Wallet.

  1. 1
    Open your wallet and select the Optimism network.
  2. 2
    Open the dApp and select
    Connect
    from the top navigation.
  3. 3
    Select
    Confirm
    in your wallet.
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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 public key to complete this step. The community link contains the community public key at the end. For example, for the community link https://status.app/cc/G8gAA[...]dy9L9, the public key is G8gAA[...]dy9L9.

  1. 1
    From the top navigation of the dApp, select
    Votes
    .
  2. 2
    Select
    Propose community
    .
  3. 3
    Enter the community public key.
  4. 4
    Choose the amount of SNT to stake and select
    Confirm vote to add community
    .
  5. 5
    Select
    Create vote to add community
    .
  6. 6
    From your wallet, confirm and pay the gas fee.

  1. 1
    From the top navigation of the dApp, select
    Directory
    .
  2. 2
    Find the community you want to remove and select
    Delete
    next to the community name.
  3. 3
    Choose the amount of SNT you want to stake for voting and select
    Confirm vote to remove community
    .
  4. 4
    From your wallet, confirm and pay the gas fee.

The voting period lasts for 14 days.

  1. 1
    From the top navigation of the dApp, select
    Votes
    .
  2. 2
    Find the community you want to vote for and select
    Don't add
    or
    Add
    for adding, or
    Keep
    or
    Remove
    for removing.
  3. 3
    Choose the amount of SNT to stake.
  4. 4
    Select
    Vote to not add community
    or
    Vote to add community
    for adding. Select
    Vote to keep community
    or
    Vote to remove community
    for removing.
  5. 5
    From your wallet, sign the vote.
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Casting your vote doesn't require a gas fee.

After voting, a seven-day verification period begins to identify valid votes.

  1. 1
    Open the dApp and find the vote to verify.
  2. 2
    Select
    Verify the vote
    .
  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.

  1. 1
    Open the dApp and find the vote to finalize.
  2. 2
    Select
    Finalize the vote
    .
  3. 3
    From your wallet, confirm and pay the gas fee.
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After finalization, the community is added or removed from the Discover Communities section in the Status app, based on the voting result.
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on Oct 14, 2024
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