Open politics

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"The open politics theory combines aspects of the free software and open content movements with multilateral assumptions of postmodernism. It promotes decision making methods claimed to be more open, less antagonistic, and more capable of determining what is in the public interest with respect to public policy issues. The cost for these advantages is reliance on social software, with accompanying systemic biases that open politics advocates seek to overcome in various ways." from Wikipedia

• anyone can participate, including anonymously
• all participants are equals, and resolve disputes via equal power relationships
• all actions are transparent, and no one has more power to review them than anyone else
• all contributions are recorded and preserved, and these records cannot be altered
• all deliberation is structured, or can be put in structured form to resolve disputes
• all content is re/organized and refactored by participants
• partisan behavior is limited by the format, rules set by factions themselves, and laws extant in the society or community which will be affected by the political decision
• control of the forum can, at least in theory, pass to the most trusted users, not the ones who started the forum

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