1. Objective: This is the subject of the exchange or question to be answered, plus any reference material (documents, links, etc.) provided
to participants by its initiator.
2. Initiator Identity (Public or
Anonymous): If “anonymous,” initiators are unidentified by both the
participants of the exchange and to anyone reviewing the records of the
exchange in the archives of ideologi. In exchanges where profits
are involved (see #6 below), then Initiator Identity is automatically set
to "public."
3. Participation (Open or Closed): If "open," then anyone can join (minus those that are registered as "blocked" by the initiator of the exchange). If "closed," then only those occupying a fixed list maintained by the initiator may participate.
4. Communication Ethics Policy (Internal Monitoring or External Monitoring): The ethics policy by which the submissions of
participants must adhere to within the exchange. If "internal monitoring," then observers chosen to officiate over any violations
during the operation of an exchange will be selected from volunteer
participants within that exchange. Upon entry to an exchange,
participants will be asked if they are willing to act as a monitor of
the exchange. If "external monitoring," then monitors will be
selected by a pre-registered list of volunteering users of the site and not participants of the exchange itself.
5.
Auto-Translate (Yes, No): If “yes,” then ideologi will automatically
convert the text of the exchange (objective, directives, scores, etc)
into the native language of each participant (i.e. AltaVista, Google or some other third-party auto-translation service).
6. Profit Structure (Free, Initiator-Funded, Participant Fee or Shared): There are currently four standard profit structures available for each exchange…
Free. Initiators are allowed to create exchanges that do not require fees from either participants or initiators.
Initiator-Funded. There is no registration fee for participants. In
order to have an exchange published for consideration, this amount must
be put into escrow by an accredited third-party until the close of the
exchange. An initiator has the right to increase their financial
contribution to total profits until the start of the exchange. An
reason for this might be to attract more participants to an exchange.
However, the initiator cannot lower their contribution once submissions
have been accepted for her exchange.
Participant-Funded. The initiator of an exchange has the right to establish a participation fee. It's primarily designed to be split-up into profits for participants to share. Initiators may also establish initiator profits,
which is a percentage of the participation fee that goes straight to
the initiator. In any case, each participant must pay this fee upon
submitting their directive to the exchange.
Shared. As a
combination of both previous scenarios, there is both a participant’s
fee, as well as an initiator-funded contribution to the total profit of the exchange.
7. Initiator Preference Bonus (No or Yes{percentage}): If "yes," then the initiator of an exchange has the right to select one the directives of their exchange (which may or may not be the Prime Directive) to receive a bonus, which is a percentage of the total number of ions and profits (if any).
8. Participant Bonus (percentage): In order to incentivise
participants into scoring directives in an altruistic manner, a certain
percentage of each participants' ions (and any profit) accumulated
from an exchange are transferred to the participants who helped scored
their directives. The amount given to each participant is based on the
amount of ions (and thus profits) given to a particular directive
relative to all of the ions accumulated by that directive.
9.
Maximum Number of Participants (# or Unlimited): The maximum number of
participants that can join the exchange. If the maximum number of
participants is reached, then no additional participants will be
admitted. An initiator has the right to raise the maximum number of
participants as many times as she wants until the start of the
exchange. However, she can never lower the maximum number of
participants once it has been raised. If "unlimited" then the number
of Participants within a given exchange is unlimited.
10.
Maximum Number of Directives Allowed Per Participant: If the initiator
chooses more than one, then participants can submit more than one
directive for a particular exchange. As is the case in any exchange,
participants will never be able to review their own directives.
11.
Format Requirements (Open {file type, size limit, etc.} or Fixed): If
"open" then participants are allowed to create their own submission,
provided that the adhere to the format requested by the initiator. If
"fixed," then the initiator will provide a list of fixed directives for
participants to choose from. In the latter case, a comment field
(text-only) will be provided to accompany their selection
12.
Start Date: The deadline for submitting a directive to an
exchange. It is also the start time for the first phase of the
exchange, when participants login to evaluate and judge directives from
their fellow participants. A universal identification code, a hybrid
of a universal decimal classification (UDC) code and the ISO 8601
representation of universal time (GMT) is assigned to each exchange.
13. Participant Identification (Public,
Anonymous, Initiator & Participant-Only or Participant’s Choice):
Initiators can choose from one of these four options in their
exchange. If “anonymous” is chosen, then a participant’s
identification will not be revealed, even in the historical records of
the exchange. If “initiator & participant-only,” then participants
will be anonymous to each other, but will be known by the initiator at
the close of the exchange. If "participant's choice," then the
participant can choose during their submission whether to make their
identity public, anonymous, or only known to the initiator.
14.
Participation
Requirements (Submit & Exchange, Exchange-Only [All
or Elimination]): “Submission & Exchange” means that
participants must submit a directive as well as participate in the
exchange. “Exchange-only” means that a participant can be allowed
to participate without submitting their own directive to the exchange.
In addition, the choice of whether follow-up phases includes all
initial participants ("all") or just the
semi-finalists of the previous phases ("elimination"). If “all,” then
all participants will continue to participate in evaluation until the
close of the exchange. If “elimination,” then the lowest ranking
participants at the end of each phase will be removed from the exchange
and will
be notified at the end of exchange to find out the final outcome of
their participation.
15. Initiator Participation (No, Yes): If “yes,” then
the Initiator is allowing herself to participate in the exchange by
submitting her own directive as well as participating in the exchange.
If that is the case, then the initiator cannot receive any of the
financial redistribution of profits in the exchange. However,
their directive will still accumulate Ions, which will be discounted
from the final calculation for profits.
16. Creative License: The initiator gets to choose the terms of intellectual property ownership (standard copyright, Creative Commons, GNU, etc.) that each participant must agree to in order to submit her directive to an exchange.
17. Valuation Methodology (Ions or Descriptors {Pure Comparison or None of the Above}): If “Ions,” then all participants are given a random selection of directives from other anonymous participants to review and evaluate based on the intiator’s objective. During each phase, participants are given a set number of Ions to distribute to the directives assigned to them as they see fit. If the initiator chooses “descriptors,” then participants will choose from a selection of descriptors provided by the initiators of an exchange. This may include words (e.g. Plus, Minus, Interesting, Incoherent, etc.), symbols (+, -, *, /, ?, $) or any other type of media.
18. Directives Per Phase: The number of directives that each participant will be
given per phase.
19. Time
per Phase: The total length of time given to evaluate the directives
given to a participant during an evaluation phase.
20. Completion Term (Ion
Accumulation, Descriptor Accumulation, Phases or Continuous {Ion Half-Life}): If "Ion accumulation," then the initiator sets the
number of ions needed for a directive to become prime, thus completing
the exchange. If "descriptor accumulation," then the initiator sets
the number of descriptors needed for a directive to become a prime
directive. Once a directive achieves that number, then the phase of
evaluation in which it occurred becomes the final phase and the
exchange is closed. If "phases," then a certain number of phases will
occur during evaluation. Regardless of the ion accumulation, the
exchange will close at the end of the last prescribed evaluation phase.
21. Upgrading Between Evaluation Phases (Yes or No): Gives each participant the right to update her directive if it makes it to the next phase of evaluation. The implied benefit is that she can adapt her directive to incorporate any of the ideas uncovered in the previous phase, as well as any epiphanies experienced since submitting her directive. If the option is “yes”, then an additional update phase will be made available after each phase of evaluation. The time length of the update phase is determined by the initiator; the default time is equal to the length of time of an evaluation phase.
22. Publication of Directives (Participant’s Choice or {Yes or No}): If “yes,” then each directive will be publicly viewable in the historical archives of ideologi at the close of the exchange. If “no,” then only the participant who submitted the Directive and the Initiator will be able to view it.
23. Publication of Outcomes (Yes, No): If “yes,” then the outcomes of the exchange will be available for public review in the archives of ideologi. If “no,” then each participant will receive their portion of the Ions and/or payments once evaluation is complete, but will not be able to view the final results of the exchange.
24. Escrow Period (Days): The results of the exchange, as well as the profit distribution of an exchange will be held in escrow by an accredited third-party for the time period following the close of the exchange. This is in order for the initiator to investigate any rules or legal challenges to distributing profits to her Participants. The escrow period can be no longer than one year (365 days). If it's determined by either the initiator or a participant that a directive violates the creative licensing agreement for an exchange, or if all or part of the content comprising a directive violates the intellectual property of another party, then that directive will be disqualified. At the end of this period, the exchange will officially be closed.
Once an Initiator has finished establishing the settings of her exchange, it is automatically ready for participants to review their objective and enter the exchange. Until the evaluation date, a participant can submit, edit or even cancel their directive(s) already submitted to the exchange.
2. Initiator Identity: mykljonzun
3. Participation: Open
4. Communication Ethics Policy: ideologi incorporated CEP (Voluntary Observation)
5. Auto-Translation: Yes
6. Profit Structure: Initiator-Funded
7. Initiator Preference Bonus: No
8. Evaluator Bonus: 10%
9. Maximum Number of Participants: 150,000
10. Maximum Number of Directives Allowed per Participant: 3
11. Format Requirements: Open (Text file; Maximum 20K)
12. Evaluation Date: 12:00 PM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada), 11 November 2007
13. Participant Identification: Participant’s Choice (Public or Anonymous)
14. Participation Requirements: Submission & Evaluation (All Phases)
15. Initiator Participation: Yes
16. Creative License: Creative Commons Deed (Attribution 2.0)
17. Valuation Method: Ions (100, Pure Comparison)
18. Directives Per Phase: 10
19. Time per Phase: 5 Days
20. Completion Term: Phases (6)
21. Upgrades Between Phases: Yes (Update Phase Added), 2 Days
22. Publication of Directives: Yes
23. Publication of Outcomes: Yes
24. Escrow Period (Days): 15 days
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