Question: I just posted to our blog about our [Third Quarter Community Roadmap for 2020](https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/07/23/the-loop-our-community-roadmap-for-q3-2020/).

[![Q3 2020 Community Roadmap. For July: "Community at our Center": Training Launch and New Moderator Agreement. "Community Builders": Review Queue: Reviewer Suspend Experience. "Inclusion": Downvotes Research. For August: "Community at our Center": Moderator Quarterly Survey and Lavender Letter Follow Up. "Community Builders": SME Content Strategy. "Inclusion": Reactions Test Analysis. "Grow & Scale: Internationalization - Discovery and Election Automation - Discovery. "Connecting Users to Opportunity": Interaction Modeling/Engaged User Satisfaction. "General Improvements": New Editor. For September: "Community at our Center": Moderator Council: Governance. "Community Builders": SME Content Release. "Inclusion": Moderator D&I Training and New User Email Series v2. "Grow & Scale": Teachers' Lounge Moderation and Tools for Community Managers. "Connecting Users to Opportunity": Area 51: The Way Forward - Discovery. "General Improvements": GDPR Consent Management v2.](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jIMF1.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jIMF1.png)

Please see the post for details on the projects that our Community and Public Platform teams aim to work on this quarter.

We are interested in your thoughts and questions regarding our upcoming projects and priorities on the roadmap.

Answer: 
The blog post implies that "Downvotes Research" is going to be limited to Stack Overflow here. I suspect you'll find very different results if you also start looking at the more subjective sites instead of just the technically oriented ones, and especially the sites which deal with more controversial topics (e.g. [IPS](https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com), [Politics](https://politics.stackexchange.com) or [any](https://judaism.stackexchange.com) [of](https://christianity.stackexchange.com) [the](https://islam.stackexchange.com) [religion](https://hinduism.stackexchange.com) [sites](https://buddhism.stackexchange.com)). And that's not even getting into the whole "[Voting is different on Meta](https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/whats-meta)" effect.

Also, will you be looking into how users feel after being downvoted, or are you just focusing on why users cast downvotes for now?
Some sites have asked to have their vote to close threshold lowered, from 5 to 3.

It's something that would be really nice, and while some CMs had access to do it in the past, now they do not. As it requires a dev to help our CM, could this be on the roadmap? It's maybe not a big item, but some sites are waiting for such change.

It's a change that was planned just before some CM firings, but now our remaining CMs have that task left in their hands

I ask, as I keep poking our CM for that in TL, but they have no dev time allowed for the task. It's not their fault, but if the item is not on the roadmap then that does not help them to get the resources to do it.