Protocol
A proposition ships 48h ahead. Citizens register before attending. Panel composition is diverse by design. A wooden token controls speech.
Agora
Agora makes disagreement safe enough to be useful.
A Polis format is a constraint system for real-world contact: small enough to be human, specific enough to be memorable, and private enough to let people be honest.
No-record rule
The eknomos rule forbids recording, quoting, and clipping the room. Violations trigger a 1-year ban from Agora formats.
Example proposition
A city should reserve one evening per week for noncommercial civic rooms in public buildings.
Steelman primers
Primer: How to argue the other side first and Primer: Disagreement without performance.
Metric
The private post-room signal asks whether a citizen can state an opposing view more fairly than before.
Start with the directory, then choose the room.
Every format routes to the same institutional promise: no ads, no data sale, no pay-to-play matching, and no public status game.
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