Weighted voting on Discord

How to set up role weights

1. 1

   Create a poll

   Use /poll in Discord or New poll in the dashboard.

2. 2

   Add weights

   Under Vote weights, add a role and its weight, e.g. @Moderator ×3 and @Booster ×2. Everyone else counts ×1.

3. 3

   Highest or sum

   Choose what happens when a member has several weighted roles: highest uses the biggest weight, sum adds them up.

4. 4

   Post it

   The poll message lists the weights, so every voter knows how votes count.

What the results show

Percentages are based on weighted votes. Next to them, Polls keeps the real number of voters, so you can always see both: "49% · 48 votes (36 voters)". Members see their own weight when they vote: "Your vote counts ×3".

When weights make sense

• Staff decisions: the whole server can vote, but the team's opinion counts more.
• Supporter perks: boosters or patrons get a bigger say in what's next.
• Councils and clans: officers, members and trial members with different weights.
• Events: regulars who show up every week count more than first-timers.

Use the same weights for every poll? Set them once under Settings → Defaults for new polls. They're preselected in the dashboard and used for polls created in Discord.

Combine with requirements

Weights decide how much a vote counts, requirements decide who may vote at all. Together: only members who've been on the server for 30 days may vote, and moderators count three times.