Facebook is proposing to trash its policy that allows members to vote on changes it makes to its data use policy.
While promising to value user feedback, Facebook Vice President for Communications, Public Policy and Marketing Elliot Schrage declared in a company blog that the “voting mechanism, which is triggered by a specific number of comments, actually resulted in a system that incentivized the quantity of comments over their quality.”
Under the existing rules, proposed changes that receive more than 7000 comments trigger a vote on those changes. If 30 percent of Facebook’s 1 billion members participate in that vote, the social network is obliged to abide by the results of that vote.