Meta-Tool

[Thomas von der Elbe]

Hi,

> So it might be entirely reasonable to aggregate votes of different system in a meta-system where you can get an overview of what people in groups larger than one organization say.

I can imagine, that this part technically actually doesn´t require a lot 
from the single systems. It would just be a continuous export of data, 
which exist inside the systems anyway. Am I guessing right?

> Consider a small organization using a liquid tool to find out what they want - if their decisions are swamped by votes from other systems - it is pretty easy to loose the boundaries of the group and generate a lot of antipathy against the system where other people tell them what to do.
>   

I like the idea of a vote-filter for solving this problem. Many useful 
and intersting things could be done with it, like filtering all votes by 
group-membership, gender, age, region of living, ... And also: this way 
all voters could be allowed to vote in all polls - you just filter out 
the meaningless.

> However we should really be focussing in getting people to actually use the different projects because we don't have the (high quality) problem yet that we need to aggregate votes - because there sadly are no voters yet. :/
>   

I think, the vote-mirroring would actually make it easier for new users 
to get involved, because the decision which engine to use wouldn´t 
matter so much anymore.

Also I somehow still have the impression, that there are thousands of 
pirates out there, who are just waiting for the starting shot. Am I 
wrong with this?

Best wishes,
Thomas