Demagoguery

Well, my way of dealing with that problem is via several mechanisms:

1. no limit on the number of questions up for discussion or the number of possible solutions to a given question -- so no arguing about which ones to include
   • obviously that causes the problem of information overload -- there's a solution to that which I need to write up
2. people will inevitably want to let other people tell them what to think -- so let's make it easy for them to do this, while documenting who listens to who so we know where the power centers are (and who we need to argue with). See htyp:InstaGov/concepts/proxy
3. the structured debate module is specifically for resolving complex disagreements of the sort that tend to get heated and are therefore easily manipulated by mainstream media framing.

These are all issues we need to be watching out for. My thinking is that we will be better able to observe these things happening once some people are using the software, and that will give us a better idea of what needs to be done to prevent them. (In other words: fill it up with water and see where the leaks are.)