Ensuring Fair Play with ideologi

► Anonymity and blindness are integral to the "subjective objectivity" inherent in the proper functioning of each exchange.  Therefore, the identities of the participants (as well as the initiator if they so choose) are not knowable to anyone (including the initiator) until the close of the exchange.  The only information that is allowed to be known in advance is statistical information about the population of the participants.  Both participants and initiators will be notified if the minimum number of directives were met before the evaluation date (see the post entitled, "Initiating an Exchange (of Ideas) with ideologi").


► Transmitting directives among participants during evaluation in a purely random fashion cannot ensure that trolls, unscrupulous initiators, or a virtual gang of cooperative (or uncooperative) participants won’t attempt to manipulate an exchange's outcomes in their favor.  In light of this, MAIA (ideologi's distribution agent) will ensure that the transmission methodology of directives is weighted by any and all historical contact between participants and initiators during past evaluation phases within an exchange as well as past exchanges.

Here's a sample of some of the information that ideologi will assess to determine how directives are transmitted among participants:

*Bell curve percentile ranking that the participants have attained in previous exchanges

*Average score that the group has received from other participants in each phase of evaluation in previous exchanges

*Average score that the group has given out to other participants in each phase of previous exchanges

*Average number of exchanges that all participants have previously joined

*Average number of times that each participant has played with the same initiator in previous exchanges

*Average number of times that each participant has played with each other in previous exchanges

*Average score that participants have given each other when they’ve played each other before in previous exchanges

*Contact information of participants (e-mail, addresses, surnames, etc)

*Time stamps of previous submissions of directives and completion of evaluation in previous exchanges, etc.