Voting in Chat System Without Topic-Specific Rooms

A computer-implemented method for providing feedback in a real-time messaging system, the method comprising:

• sending from the real-time messaging system having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs executed by the one or more processors at least a portion of target messages from a plurality of incoming messages to respective users of a plurality of users based at least in part on selection criteria and filtering criteria of the respective users;
• receiving at the messaging system from the respective users feedback data regarding at least one of:
• one or more target messages received by the respective users and respective authors of the one or more target messages;
• and
• processing the feedback data, through execution of the one or more programs, for providing respective feedback results to at least some of the respective authors, wherein the respective feedback results for the respective authors are provided in addition to messages that are targeted based at least in part on selection criteria and filtering criteria of the respective authors.