Idea 08 · Skews Paper, a working name
Every story is a card with one question, and the question fits the story: love it or hate it, funny or not, will it happen or won't it. One tap, see how the country skews, next card. Anonymous, no comment box, no shouting.
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Tap a card, see how the country skews, swipe to the next; the question changes with the story.
Likes measure attention, not opinion. Comments measure the loudest 1%.
There is no quick, anonymous way to say what you think or feel about a story, or to call what happens next.
Reading is passive. Today the only way to do something with a story is to argue in the comments.
One story per card, from open sources.
And it changes to fit the story: love, hate or indifferent; funny or not; yes, no or maybe; will the ceasefire hold or not.
That is the whole loop.
Feeling. Love, hate or indifferent; funny or not; agree or disagree. This is the sentiment layer.
Prediction. Yes, no or maybe on something that has not happened yet. This is the bet, and where the news gets a scoreboard.
The effort barrier and the performance barrier of commenting.
A feeling on soft news, a prediction on hard news, never a blank comment box.
So the feed is full from day one.
What you get when Tinder, Kalshi and a straight news wire share a child.
Two lines. A prediction-market rake on the "will it happen" cards, and aggregate sentiment and prediction data sold to newsrooms, brands and researchers. No personal data, only aggregates.
Never; only anonymous aggregates exist.
No. Most cards are just a feeling, one tap. The prediction cards are there if you want to call it.
Established open sources, aggregated, never rewritten.
Only the prediction cards, and they follow the rules of each market they run in.
The news, as something you do, not just read.
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