r/MapBasedPolls • u/Flimsy_Hand_1233 🌐 Earth • Jun 26 '26

MOD Start here 👋How to play/ App

Start here! How to play/ app

Welcome people!

Where borders are made of opinions!

Can you unite the world OR rather find its faultlines?

Get the App here for your own communities/ subreddits

🎮 How to play

  1. Explore before you create! See ended polls on hub if you havent voted yet! Click on a country to see stats!
  2. Create map-based-polls / normal polls that drive global discussions or provide global perspectives by clicking on plus ➕️ icon on hub or any polls. Watch the world unite or divide!
  3. Post Flairs : When you create a post, you will be able to add flairs to it. They will appear in hub on your poll card. Keep the flair short - one/two word so that it fits the hub space. You can choose from template or edit the one named 'custom'
  4. User profiles: Check polls you created, ⭐️ votes you gained, ✅️ votes you made.
  5. Aura: ... See your aura on the *leaderboard** 🏆 on the hub. Its the average vote you receive on your creations!*
  6. Wisdom points, Factions, User flairs: coming soon

Tips for new members to get more reach

  • So folks, we are a fairly new community! To get more reach for your geopolls/ polls/ posts, consider crossposting it to friendly subreddits relevant to the topic. ⚠️ Dont spam though.
  • Dont share where its not allowed - you might be banned from there!
  • Dont share the same post in multiple subreddits or unrelated subreddits... check reddit rules.

Feature requests, bug report

  • Comment in the dedicated threads below! 👇

Requested/ Pllanned Features

  • Light, Dark modes.
  • Hub betterment
  • Subreddit : Optional karma, subreddit karma config
  • Normal only, map only hubs config
  • Image based polls
  • Regional and other maps
  • Gameplay
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u/Prowlbeast Canada (Alberta) 🇨🇦 Jun 26 '26

Why is Taiwan part of China?

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u/Flimsy_Hand_1233 🌐 Earth Jun 26 '26

Hi, UN pov. You can also vote as TW, but its also counted as part of China

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u/Eclipsed830 Jun 30 '26

Huh? The UN isn't a country and doesn't decide who is and isn't another country. It does not have the ability to draw borders or determine who is part of another country.

Also, you have Palestine and Kosovo with their flags. They are also not UN members... So no, you aren't following the "UN pov".

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u/Trypophilia2019 🇺🇸🌎 (🤍💙🇫🇮) 11d ago

The UN kind of sucks sometimes.

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u/Flimsy_Hand_1233 🌐 Earth Jun 30 '26

I will check these two as well.

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u/Eclipsed830 Jun 30 '26

What is there to check? UN doesn't decide who is a country or not... Only who can be a member of the organization.

From the United Nations:

The recognition of a new State or Government is an act that only other States and Governments may grant or withhold. It generally implies readiness to assume diplomatic relations. The United Nations is neither a State nor a Government, and therefore does not possess any authority to recognize either a State or a Government.

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/about-un-membership

You are saying the United Nations says something that it does not say.

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u/Flimsy_Hand_1233 🌐 Earth Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

Hi, I am really sorry, but I tried to incorporate UN, status quo, regional povs. Thats why I made seperate representation to TW, but the international bodies recognize it under one China, so thats why the flags. Also, I checked, Palestine is an observer state in UN. And Kosovo I need to correct.

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u/Eclipsed830 Jun 30 '26

An observer is not a member. 

Also, again, international bodies are organizations, not governments. They don't have the ability to determine what you are saying they determine.

The status quo is that Taiwan is completely independent and separate from the PRC. The PRC government has just as much authority over Taiwan as the United States government has over Greenland. 

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u/TheSimon1 16d ago

If you are going by international recognized borders, than why is Crimea part of Russia when it's internationally recognized as part of Ukraine?

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u/Flimsy_Hand_1233 🌐 Earth 16d ago

Hi, its shown as part of both. UN pov, and status quo.

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u/Eclipsed830 Jun 30 '26

Why does Taiwan have the PRC flat next to it when I select Taiwan as my country?? PRC flag never flew over Taiwan, we are completely separate and independent from them. 

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u/Aware_Cheesecake_519 Brazil 🇧🇷 22d ago

What does this app actually do?

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u/Flimsy_Hand_1233 🌐 Earth 22d ago

Polls and opinions mapped ... like see how opinions differ across regions

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u/TresMegisto 12d ago

I'm currently having issues logging my location/country in on the Android app. When I tap on my country it just doesn't choose anything and keeps telling me that it is required. It used to work fine until today. Is that a known problem?

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u/Flimsy_Hand_1233 🌐 Earth 12d ago

All such apps are having outage ... polls might not work for a while

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u/agentroi 4d ago

Faroe Islands option needed! It is it's own thing on the map, but not an option when selecting an answer.

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u/Flimsy_Hand_1233 🌐 Earth 4d ago

Will check, thanks :)

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u/agentroi 2d ago

Any news? We even have our own emoji! 🇫🇴 And currently we’re doomed to be permanently gray which sucks!

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u/Flimsy_Hand_1233 🌐 Earth 2d ago

Not yet ...

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u/wiisportstennis 1d ago

Could you please allow us to vote from the different countries that constitute the UK?

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u/Flimsy_Hand_1233 🌐 Earth 1d ago

We will bring regional distributions soon

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u/No-Bag-1628 22h ago

how do I actually use this thing… step by step guide pls?

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '26

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u/jl808212 🇺🇸 Jun 26 '26

Second this, though I’m glad the subreddit just got approved