You can also influence the votes by upvoting (and downvoting) your charities at /r/redditdonate. That is where discussions on the effectiveness take place.
As of this post, the placement is: GiveDirect-25, MIRI-47, CFAR-143, EvidenceAction-189, GiveWell-238.
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.
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4. Open Threads should start on Monday, and end on Sunday.