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Child Group
A group which is below another group, called its
Parent Group in the community tree.
Community Tree
An n-ary tree of Groups where each node can have any number
of children and any number of parents. The most important job of a referendum site administrator
is to define the Community Tree. This is done by first analyzing an
existing community and breaking it into Parent and Child Groups,
then creating the Root Groups of the Community, and then
any number of important Child Groups.
Discussion
A Bunch of comments posted about an Issue. Just Like all those
other bulletin board systems out there, but in referendum every
discussion is centered around an issue, and can therefore collect
and analyze feedback from Members in the form of Votes
Group
An association of people united by a common interest. Each group
can have any number of Parent Groups
and any number of Child Groups
Issue
An item of interest to a Group. Presenting an issue to a
Group invites either resolution or opinions about the item from all
the group's Members in the form of Votes. The
closest thing to an issue in a traditional bulletin board system
is the subject line of a top-level thread.
Member
A person who belongs to a referendum Group
Parent Group
A group which is above another group, called its
Child Group in the community tree.
Root Group
A group with no Parent Groups. Root Groups
are created BEFORE a referendum site is launched. It is
the set of initial Root Groups more than anything which
describes the flavor of a Referendum community tree
Vote
A statement by a Member of his opinion on an Issue.
Voting Collects information from members and thereby helps
Groups and its members understand the group's makeup.
This increased understanding helps the Group and its members to
focus their efforts on goals which are important to the Group,
thereby wisely spending the most important Group resource: the
productive time of its members.
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