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A discussion about better discussions
I am curious about having better (online) discussions. My personal focus here is on social media opinion building and how better discussions could improve the quality of democratic decisions, make common voices more relevant and heard by the ones who will finally make decisions.
For this I have set-up a so far closed-source project with the following goal:
VeriVotion — Esperanto for “reasoning” — is a secure website for civilised debates — no shouting, rudeness or irrationality allowed! - that supports more relevant opinion-building as a foundation for smarter decisions and votings along social, political and organisatorial debates and large scale problem resolution activities.
From a technical perspective, the project's primary Phase I deliverable is a generic Commenting- and Discussion-WebSite-Plugin that supports smarter social debates on otherwise public accessible websites.
For this I have set-up a so far closed-source project with the following goal:
VeriVotion — Esperanto for “reasoning” — is a secure website for civilised debates — no shouting, rudeness or irrationality allowed! - that supports more relevant opinion-building as a foundation for smarter decisions and votings along social, political and organisatorial debates and large scale problem resolution activities.
From a technical perspective, the project's primary Phase I deliverable is a generic Commenting- and Discussion-WebSite-Plugin that supports smarter social debates on otherwise public accessible websites.
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Right now, a lot of the collective intelligence that moderators gain from being on the front lines of the internet is lost. There’s no effective feedback loop for them to tell their employers what they’re seeing, such as trends and warning signs. I’ve talked to moderators who were probably some of the first people outside the U.S. State Department to know about certain conflict zones, with nowhere to go with that information.
Business ideas could also be gathered from these workers around how to improve online rules or better serve the public. But because moderators are at a remove organizationally, and often geographically, and because communication lines with leadership are nonexistent or broken, they’re seen as automatons who enforce extant rules — not as valued employees with knowledge to contribute to the larger ecosystem. That strikes me as a real missed opportunity.