Following up from community call on the first two weeks of July, I suggest looking into RxC Voice as an option for polling the greater Resonate community.
Downsides to RxC Voice is that it might be overcomplicated, but I enjoyed participating in the RxC Voice pilot and didn’t feel like my voice was unheard or that I overpowered the discussion by being too loud.
RxC Voice uses Pol.is, a type of wikipoll, which is how I learned about it initially. I’m a big fan of pol.is and wikipolls in general. Here’s an example report from one I created earlier this year: https://pol.is/report/r54afrbhfmkzdttptwf3u
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@boopboop Could you flesh this vision out a little further?
(FWIW, I recommend the co-op prioritize the implementation of a credentialing process upon Membership. I contributed some user stories here.
I envision the MEMBER CREDENTIAL as a key to access voting/polling privileges as well as spaces where other governance labors and deliberations (like this weekend’s Assembly) are being contributed.)
@richjensen Currently on RxC Voice, there’s a “community credential” placeholder in which on signup, users have the option to link their twitter account. If some other participant notices something suspicious with someone else’s twitter account, they can speak up about suspected fraud / cheating.
An alternative using the community credential could be →
potential participants are emailed an invite to the rxc process
some potential participants decide to participate and create accounts with an email (necessary to send the users notification emails about the process), and instead of the twitter / social media step, does the community credential step. This user is now verified as a member of the community.
the signed up participants can now decide to invite their friends who might have been left out of the official list for whatever reason, who would pass through the identical process
if liquid voting is being done to solve a time zone issue, then:
there’s less incentive to come up with a schedule that works for people in the minority and majority time zone.
If someone in a minority time zone wants to have their say, they’d have to find someone not in their time zone to agree to be their delegate. Should there be some sort of delegate introduction process (basically, a political campaign) so as to make a more educated decision and ask questions? In the oct 9 meeting, both participants who delegated their votes were present at the meeting and could use that and other meetings to decide who they wanted to delegate to. But for those people who really can’t make meetings, what to do?
Things that would have to be figured out:
How long is the vote delegated? Is it per meeting? If it’s forever but take-back any time there’s a risk that the person who delegated the vote just stops engaging for unrelated reasons. Now the delegate to has an additional vote until that person comes back, which might be never.
To assist in generating delegation relationships, Google Votes supports delegation advertisements. These are messages sent over Google+ where a user says why others should delegate to them. The posts include a link giving the viewer a chance to view the potential delegate’s voting record and a mechanism to add a delegation (Figure 8). In addition to the user feeling rewarded as others delegate, the user’s expertise and popularity is reinforced as delegating users see other users who have delegated. Thus, delegation advertisements can enable group leaders and potential leaders to build and reinforce their reputation
which fosters greater group participation
