Results: Discussion

Discussion

Over the past year, many social media websites have made major changes to the way their site works, over the objections of their users. What say should users of large websites have in their operation?

--Agreed Upon Solutions

Tyranny of the Majority View

Up Party Disagree

Up Party Pass

Up Party Agree

Down Party Disagree

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The Tyranny of the Majority View finds minority voices in our responses and displays them as clusters. Size of each point relative to the number of votes. Coloring based on vote on comment Comment: Smart designers should involve passionate users in their designs. They should ask for feedback and watch how users interact with the site.

Map View

The Tyranny of the Majority View finds minority voices in our responses and displays them as clusters. Size of each point relative to the number of votes.

Coloring

Coloring based on vote on comment Comment: Smart designers should involve passionate users in their designs. They should ask for feedback and watch how users interact with the site.

Comment Sorting

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Twothirds System

I believe that there should be supermajority democracy among all situations involving large groups of people: If more than twothirds of website users vote to make\veto a change, that vote should be binding on the site.

--spring

Group

Agreeability (95% CI)

Agree / Pass / Disagree

Convergence (Total Votes)

Balanced

Undecided (31%-91%)

A:71% / P:29% / D:0%

40% (7)

Raw

Undecided (35%-97%)

A:83% / P:17% / D:0%

39% (6)

Up Party

Undecided (38%-100%)

A:100% / P:0% / D:0%

38% (4)

Down Party

Undecided (10%-90%)

A:50% / P:50% / D:0%

20% (2)

Comment

Smart designers should involve passionate users in their designs. They should ask for feedback and watch how users interact with the site.

--anonymous

Group

Agreeability (95% CI)

Agree / Pass / Disagree

Convergence (Total Votes)

Balanced

Undecided (16%-84%)

A:50% / P:50% / D:0%

32% (4)

Raw

Undecided (18%-93%)

A:67% / P:33% / D:0%

25% (3)

Up Party

Undecided (2%-79%)

A:0% / P:100% / D:0%

22% (1)

Down Party

Undecided (23%-100%)

A:100% / P:0% / D:0%

23% (2)