Community-Based Voting and Collaboration
This community decides what it stands for. Positions, plans and candidate judgments come from libertarians voting and working together — not from a platform written upstairs and delivered to the membership.
- The community builds the package. Collaboration produces it, and the package is the product.
- You vote where you sit on the spectrum. That position drives which candidates get matched to you, and it shows the real spread inside this community — so a loud minority does not get mistaken for the whole.
- Our job is the process. Run it honestly, and keep it hard to capture. That is the whole of what we do here.
What keeps this from being gamed
- Your party answer only decides who you get compared against. It is not a gate. No feature is denied on it, no page is hidden behind it, and it never becomes public unless you make it public.
- Arriving on this domain does not answer it for you. Libertarian comes pre-selected, with "you came in through the Libertarian door — is that right?", and you still have to click. Filling it in from the address would make the whole measurement circular.
- Weight over other people has to be earned; nothing you do alone does. A place where citizens document what their own officials did is a target for astroturf and sockpuppet accounts, so publishing into shared space and being counted in a community result are earned. Reading, reasoning and recording your own positions are not, and never will be.
In this area
- The Community Builds the Package, We Do Not Hand It Down — Collaboration produces the package, and the package is the product.
- Voting on Where You Sit on the Spectrum — Citizens vote their own position. That position drives candidate matching.
Where this sits
This is one area of We The Citizens L, the Libertarian front door at WeCitizensL.com. It is written for libertarians, and nothing on the other three doors decides what belongs here.
Source: marketing/messaging/libertarians.md §7.0.