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We tried to make 'support' work as a replacement for vote, but it can be confusing for anglophones. It may need to be changed, and should be considered by the team working on the new interface. One possible solution would be to use "support" as the verb and "vote" as the noun, as in "click here to support" and "total number of votes (of support)".
"Supports", except when used in medicine or structural engineering, are uncountable nouns. Decidim is using "support" as a countable noun, which has the following definitions: (https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/american_english/support_2)
- [countable] a thing that holds something and prevents it from falling
- [countable] something you wear to hold an injured or weak part of your body firmly in position
An example of how decidim's use of support as a countable noun can lead to hard-to-understand phrases is "Proposal supports", which would not be easily understandable to anglophones as an equivalent of votes of support.
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To test this, ask any anglophone what this sentence could mean: "It has ten supports".
I also asked chatGPT, which expressed the concern better than I did:
User: "Can the word "Support" be used as a countable noun to indicate a vote, as in "The candidate received ten supports"?"
ChatGPT: "While "support" is commonly used as a noun, it is generally treated as an uncountable noun when referring to the general idea of assistance, approval, or endorsement. In your example sentence, saying "The candidate received ten supports" might sound unusual or awkward to native English speakers.
A more common way to express this idea would be to use "votes" or another countable noun. For instance, you could say, "The candidate received ten votes" or "The candidate gained the support of ten people." In this context, "votes" is a more typical and idiomatic choice for indicating numerical support in the form of individual actions or expressions of approval."
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