polis

More at https://compdemocracy.org/ and source code at https://github.com/compdemocracy/polis.

I've worked around a medium-sized and storied backbone project that (for good reason) didn't have time to "get things right" and hoooooo boy can it get complex and spaghetti.[1] Compared to my confusion making sense of that project, I simply cannot imagine getting so confused orienting in a React project, even if it were done by an inexperienced person. It seems to me that the "extra" abstractions of React compel you to use them, and so things end up in reliable, sensible places. The entanglements the author mentions feel like part of the benefit, I guess? [1]: https://github.com/compdemocracy/polis/tree/edge/client-part...

Polis (and Twitter's community notes, I believe) Participation At Scale Can Repair The Public Square https://www.noemamag.com/participation-at-scale-can-repair-t... Polis: Scaling deliberation by mapping high dimensional opinion spaces https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Polis:+Scaling+delibera... Restricting clustering to 2-5 groups impacts group aware/informed consensus and comment routing https://github.com/compdemocracy/polis/issues/1289

OSS repo (AGPLv3): https://github.com/compdemocracy/polis Main hosted instance of the OSS tech: https://pol.is && https://twitter.com/usepolis 501c3 supporting the tech & implementation: The Computational Democracy Project https://compdemocracy.org/about && https://twitter.com/compdem

(This is an outside project contributor speaking.) > it looks like the only way to log in is through Twitter or Facebook true :( > Are there any plans for a more general OAuth implementation? Some tickets open, but hasn't moved in awhile. Def an opportunity to contribute this! :) Context in the issue linked later. Right now, you can get third-party auth working in one of two ways: (1) contributing the feature to upstream Polis (slow, and lots of work) or (2) do auth in a custom "wrapper" app in which a Polis embed is used (quick, and no need to understand the messy Polis codebase). Sample of a wrapper app linked through here: https://github.com/compdemocracy/polis/issues/97#issuecommen...

This is a great question. I've been using Polis for maybe 5 years. The "pass" is a catch-all for many things[1], including "rejecting a premise". It's non-obvious in the current interface, but there's room for coaching/learning how to engage with "complex/mixed" statements. For example, statements you encounter that conflict with your own emotional or factual sensibilities, which you're reluctant to respond to in a simple way (with agree/disagree). In this case, users can just "pass" on that statement, and immediately go below and submit a new "corrected" statement, or alternatively divide that one statement into a few separate ones, that can be reacted to more authentically. That way, you're not forced to weigh in on things you find to be leading statements or overly simplistic. And the pool of statements for everyone becomes ever-more-n

It’s straight from the Welcome page under “community”: https://compdemocracy.org/Welcome https://github.com/compdemocracy/polis GNU AGPL 3: https://github.com/compdemocracy/polis/blob/dev/LICENSE There’s a doc on embedding it on a site, too, if that’s the end you’re interested in: https://compdemocracy.org/embedding-polis-on-your-web-proper...

Most of the work of good public consultation facilitators is (1) stopping those loud/frustrated/opinionated/entrenched people from distorting process, and (2) allowing many people to feel heard. (This is in addition to, of course, the more obvious: actually integrating that feedback, repeating it back, and acting on it.) Perhaps surprisingly with (2), public consultations are sometimes almost like public therapy -- allowing people to feel heard so they can then take a step forward, even if it's not a step fully in the direction they prefer. People can make better compromises when they feel heard, they just need to be contained so they don't take speaking time/attention from everyone else. Disclosure: highly engaged in public consultation process, civic tech, and consensus-building technology through my interest in https://github.com/compd