Voting & community surveys

Voting & community surveys

Community signal on directree comes in two flavours: upvotes on tools, and the community survey.

Upvotes

Signed-in users can upvote any tool they find genuinely useful. Upvotes are the only thing that ranks the Top feed: not payment, not featuring, not verification. One account, one vote per tool.

That's also why votes deliberately don't influence the AI match or any listing facts. Popularity is its own signal, kept separate from truth.

The community survey

About twice a week, /surveys poses one question to the community, typically a "which tool would you pick for X?" style question with a set of tool options.

• Voting: sign in and cast your vote on the open survey. The tally is live.
• Closing: each survey has a closing time; once closed, the result is final.
• The archive: closed surveys move to the archive as a permanent public record. Nothing is edited after the fact; the archive is the receipts.

The tagline is literal: we never pick winners, you do. directree doesn't editorialise survey outcomes, and paid plans can't buy votes.

Why participate

Beyond influencing results, genuine participation builds your contributor standing: the quality-gated, trust-weighted reputation behind the Top Contributor badge and the daily Community Showcase draw. Low-effort activity earns nothing (by design); substantive participation does. How that works is covered in Contributors & the Community Showcase.

At signup you can opt into survey invites, a heads-up when new surveys open, which is the easiest way to participate consistently.

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