How this site works

VoteRoyale settles debates by voting, with a single unit of account: the voice. Every visitor gets one for free each day, and it renews at midnight where they are, not at midnight on our servers. One voice is worth exactly one point, whatever its origin: a free voice and a voice from a purchased pack weigh precisely the same. Paying lets you speak more often, never louder.

The counters shown are real. No score has been seeded, inflated or simulated, including at launch: every match started from zero, and a debate showing few voices shows few because it has received few. Until a match has gathered enough participants, we prefer to show a balance of power in percentages with a "brand new" badge rather than a raw total that would look like a verdict.

Counting happens entirely server-side. Each vote consumes a single-use token issued in the page, which makes replaying a vote impossible, and the free voice is capped at one per device per day. Mass-inflation attempts are detected afterwards and the voices involved are removed from the scores. We never keep an IP address in clear text: it is turned into a non-reversible fingerprint, used only to spot abnormal bursts.

Matches come from two places. Some we open ourselves, choosing arguments that have gone unsettled for long enough to be worth counting. Others are proposed by people who vote here regularly, and go through a review queue before publication: the charter rules out private individuals, defamation and party politics, and it applies identically whether the proposal was free or paid for. Nothing goes live unread.

The home page ranking does not reward seniority: it is sorted by velocity, that is, by the number of voices received over the past twenty-four hours. A debate opened yesterday can therefore overtake a long-standing match if the public picks it up.

Country spaces open gradually. A country appears in the selector once it has real activity of its own; until then, its visitors vote in the world space, and it is precisely those votes that open it. Nothing about the page you see depends on your IP address: the country we suggest is only ever a suggestion, and the same URL always serves the same content to everyone.

Finally, everything published here is reviewed before going live. Matches proposed by visitors go through a moderation queue, and the charter rules out private individuals in particular. The site is published by ACEITUNA; its method, sources and limits are set out on the about page.