{"id":123,"date":"2023-04-06T08:40:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T08:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.kialo.dev\/hc\/using-voting\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T08:23:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T08:23:11","password":"","slug":"using-voting","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/hc\/using-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kialo’s voting system is designed to measure the <\/span>impact<\/span><\/em> that each claim has on users’ opinion of the <\/span>next <\/span><\/em>claim up. Functionally, that means that voting on a claim (usually) measures the synthesis of two factors: the <\/span>truth or persuasiveness<\/span><\/em> of a claim, and its <\/span>relevance to its parent claim<\/span><\/em>. With this in mind, you can use Kialo debates to measure and understand the views and beliefs of others – simply provide them with a completed discussion to vote on. You can also vote or have others vote on a discussion from a chosen perspective other than your or their own – see <\/span>Understanding Perspectives<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>

In general, we recommend waiting to start voting until a discussion is a significant way towards being finished. Voting earlier can mean wasting time – if a discussion is restructured, many of your votes will be wiped as claims are moved around. If you are setting up a new discussion, it can be worthwhile to leave voting turned off until it has had time to develop (see: <\/span>Enabling\/Disabling Voting in a Discussion<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kialo’s voting system is designed to measure the impact that each claim has on users’ opinion of the next claim up. Functionally, that means that voting on a claim (usually) measures the synthesis of two factors: the truth or persuasiveness of a claim, and its relevance to its parent claim. With this in mind, you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_doc_category":0,"wds_primary_doc_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[32],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-123","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-for-general-users"],"acf":{"zendesk_id":"115001605352","zendesk_url":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/115001605352-Using-Voting"},"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":179,"total_views":"403","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"mk","author_nicename":"mk","author_url":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/author\/mk\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"For General Users","term_url":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/hc\/sections\/for-general-users\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}