XRepublic Objects & Methods - Citizen

Citizen Types

type: {nym | name | personna}
authenticated {true, false}
id
name
partisanMembershipList
wonkResolutionList
statusHistory
bio
votingRecord
sleeve
affinityTemplate
houseMemebership
messageVisitationList
resolutionWeighList

The citizen is conceived of as an individual who seeks to express opinions, inform their opinion, restate and reform their opinion in the context of a finite universe of contextual information.HouseA House consists of a great number of individual Citizens contributing to a number of threaded discussions known as Threads or DialogThreads.  Each House has its own character and style which may change over time. But in my experience, any discussion group finds a level and tone at which it stays. This tone and level attracts certain people and it discourages others. In order to facilitate the widest diversity of opinion, and gather opinions from third party websites, each House is independent. Note about third party houses. The XRepublic will be designed to accommodate the largest discussion groups on the web, specifically those created by The Well, Salon’s Table Talk, Café Utne’s and Caucus systems.

Citizen Sleeve
The object was called a Sleeve. A Sleeve is a color coded set of positions which are generated through responses to litmus tests. A citizen will have a full sleeve which may be revealed in full or in parts. By parts, these sleeves will indicate affinities which are designed by the beholder. For example, if I have ten interests, I can select several Litmus tests and then map out a position. I can also pick out an individual and then compare his sleeve to mine. For the moment we can say that an individual has an 'affinity template'. A partisan group will also have a composite affinity template of its membership, as well Houses can have composite affinity templates. If we were to implement this in a simple way

Authenticated individuals must submit some kind of trusted document to a central authority.