The Consumerium Exchange

The Consumerium Exchange is where people can voice their opinion on which disputed article or campaign is closest to the truth at a certain period of time.

The purpose of The Consumerium Exchange is to provide an popularity measurement for different opinions, which determines the default opinion shown to the consumer on each issue.

The consumer can override the view of a given company, interest group or industry with her/his own preferences automatically or manually. One important preference is the slider to set how much weight direct and indirect votes get. Enabling automatic exclusion of votes based on preferences should also be possible.

Distribution of power

Every person gets two votes on each issue:

• An Indirect Vote.
• A Direct Vote.

Where issue is a disputed article or a campaign.

Counter measures against multivoting and vote buying should be meticulously evaluated.

Other functions in the exchange

Registered members are able to set scores (with comments) on each other extended-FOAF style (Friend Of A Friend/Foe).

This would provide more strongly differentiated views on the issues if FOAF-aggregation is enabled in the preferences of the consumer.

Of course the consumer has to decide on a few organsations (minimum being one) s/he chooses to trust the most and the value of other participants is then relative to what organisations are saying about each other.

One could ask well why not full campaigns on other campaigners?

The anwser being no, not campaigns, because it would lead to all sorts of conceptual unclarities, problems with infinite recursion and besides if party A has an view on party B that view is a private matter of Party A, not party C

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See also:

• The Talk Page for Discussion on this facility