Citizens Vote on the Speakers
At most political conferences the organizers decide who gets the microphone. At ours, every name on the speaker list is put to the citizens, and what they said is published next to the decision.
How a vote works
- Yes or no, and how strongly. Give a person 1 to 5 thumbs up or 1 to 5 thumbs down. A lukewarm yes and a firm yes are different answers, and both are recorded.
- One vote per citizen per person. Change your mind whenever you like. Only your latest answer counts.
- A real person behind every vote. You vote signed in, with a confirmed email. Anyone can read the results.
- Four numbers per person, in the open. How many said yes, how strongly on average, how many said no, how strongly on average.
Recommend someone instead
If you would rather hear from someone else, you can recommend them for that place on the poster. Recommending someone also counts as a yes for the person you put forward.
What the result means, and what it does not
What citizens said is published as exactly that: what citizens said. It is never presented as a judgment of the person. For now the movement's admins decide who is on the list, and the citizens' answer sits beside that decision for everyone to see. A speaker the citizens overwhelmingly reject is visibly rejected.
When a conference year closes, its votes close with it. The final count stays readable, frozen, for as long as the page exists.
Voting is in alpha and is opening one party's conference at a time.
Where to go next
- The Speaker List Is the Test: what every speaker's page shows, and what the small star means.
- How Often We Meet: the yearly conference, and the smaller sessions along the way.
- Citizen votes: the same voting feature, used across the whole product.
Source: the conference product specification (pm/conference/conference.mdx, §20 and §24) and the
voting specification (pm/conference/voting.mdx).