The internet needs a crazyboard.
You know, one of these:
Yeah. We need that, on-chain. For everyone to contribute and refer to.
Why not keep track of what we believe?
Why not keep track of the best evidence for each belief?
Why not keep track of whose opinions are useful, and whose are misleading?
We don’t need to have important conversations scattered all over the internet anymore. Over and over, and then fading from memory. The sheer amount of brainpower spent on conversations that have already happened three or four million times. The sheer waste of that!
So, we built it.
We built the The Last Internet Argument. The public, immutable Crazyboard.
We’re just starting to experiment and play with it. Here’s an example from today:
How to participate
Connect your wallet to https://ideamarket.io and set up your profile. Upload a profile image, bio, and connect Twitter (does NOT require a tweet)
Start rating things that speak to you, and jump into the argument! What hasn’t been said yet? (Hint: It’s most things)
Front page = Controversial this week
Front page is now sorted by Weekly Controversial — that’s basically the posts that have been rated by the top-ranked users by IMO staking, each week. If you want a certain post to show up on top of the homepage, simply stake IMO on yourself and rate the post you want to elevate. The more IMO staked on the people who rate it, the higher it will rise. The ratings themselves can be high or low, doesn’t matter.
/u/bradenlockwood and I are planning weekly “rating parties” — events where we get a bunch of people together to argue about a hot topic, on chain.
Soon: Use Ideamarket from L1 and other chains
We’re integrating DeBridge so you can use Ideamarket without switching networks to Arbitrum. This makes the site at least 10x more accessible, since anyone with L1 ETH on Metamask will be able to use Ideamarket right away.
Soon: New homepage design
We’re planning to revamp the homepage and make it look more like this —
The post is in the blue box on the left.
The center column is the top citations — top reasons people agree or disagree with the post.
The grey column is the top users who agree with the post. (I use Balaji as an example a lot, because the fact that “Balaji was right” should be on chain)
In the last column you can take actions, and see who owns the NFT of the post, which includes all of the signatures of the top users (like an autographed baseball) and all citations.
Stats on the far left are Confidence Rating, most recent NFT sale price, number of Ratings, and amount of IMO staked on all users who rated. We’ll find a better way to display this stuff.
In a single frame, we can see the post, the top reasons for/against, and a snapshot of all the social clout behind it.
We think this design does a better job of showing what Ideamarket is designed to do. This will apply only to the main table on the homepage. The rest of the site will stay basically the same. What do you think?
Cheers,
—Mike
Yes!
But it's not as easy as it looks at first glance. Many people have had the same idea, more or less (it's a GREAT idea!), but we haven't got there yet. Have a look at Kialo (https://www.kialo.com/), for example. They've come a long way!
They're not on the blockchain, so they aren't "permanent", true. But that's not the only challenge.
If you're interested in seeing how far this idea can go, check out The Canonical Debate Lab:
- https://canonicaldebatelab.com/
- https://github.com/canonical-debate-lab/paper/blob/master/README.mediawiki
- https://medium.com/canonical-debate-lab
If you'd like to join our effort (including contributing more blockchain knowledge), we have a Slack team and (at least) weekly hangouts.