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Feels less about "seed" comments, and more about:
Moderators arrive with their own values, and ideas of how to run a consultation. Communities are different, and so approaches to using tools may differ. Situations I know have come up:
So anonymous seems like quite a small subset, that perhaps only larger institutional players have strong preference on. These players and many others often arrive with the idea that anonymous is "good", or "neutral". But many others have good reason to question that stance, and would air toward "avoid anonymity" as a way to build trust with communities. My understanding is that some communities (first nations, among other cultures), are more likely to reject the anonymity conjecture. Proposals
Sketch of ProposalMissing: (1) how popup for authorship might look like, (2) fields in popup for potentially setting authorship, (3) hint on card itself, of authorship being set by moderator (not via participant's social login). On Being OpinionatedPolis is opinionated about some things, which is good. But sometimes moderators might have good reason to "break our assumptions". @biancawylie once told me that the ability to "break the meeting" is an important release valve in any public process. Digital tools perhaps deserve similar affordances? We should be conscious if moderators then have to convince us of the worthiness each time we need to break or bend, because that can be onerous and painful beyond how they can experiment and learn in IRL meatspace. I'd love to see us take the perspective that "of course the tool's preferred perspective is wrong sometimes", and offer flexibility to try things outside our assumptions. Regardless, perhaps somewhere in knowledgebase, we could itemize the things that we realize we're opinionated about. That way, people can at least go there to understand where friction might be. This would also be a guide to potential users about where conversation might be required with Polis Team beyond their expectations, esp if they're accustomed to spaces with different assumptions. cc: @dataHumanist |
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