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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

Introducing . song contest but with based voting. Where you can run your Eurovision (virtual) party, voting by your followers and peers, celebrating your favourites of the official final in your community. Sharing your results with other groups. I’d like to see this happening. Let’s build it. Shall we discuss this at ? :)

@jwildeboer you know this already happens every year, right?

@jwildeboer Now that's an awesome idea. Enriched with country wise meta data it may as well replace conventional voting.Would love to see and participate.

@rybson Err ... no. AFAI understand @jwildeboer 's point was making it an Eurovision extension, replacing the centralized and ever changing Eurovision rules by free Fediverse based voting system. After all, a main point about Eurovision is to unite whole of Europe (if not the whole world) for one evening with one big festival not many tiny ones.

@jwildeboer Ooh I am really curious to understand the affordances and limits of AP-based voting

@jwildeboer@wildeboer.net We used to do that on Twitter! A long time ago I wrote a thing cashed HashMoot that allowed you to tweet something (like a product name or service) along with a score ('marks out of ten', like 6/10) and the hashtag #moot, and they'd all be gathered into a database. You could search the database for a product, and it would average all the scores for that search.

It was neat. Nobody used it.

But every year we did repurpose it to score Eurovision entries. That was fun!