We’d like to have curated groups of markets, each with a separate feed and set of leaderboards

Problems

• Activity feed can be noisy, you see markets you don’t care about
• People don’t feel free to create as many markets on a topic because
  • It might be cluttering the feed
  • No one might find them
• We could use tags for this purpose
  • But the structure is not exactly right for communities: when anyone can add a market under a tag, it’s prone to spam or other undesired additions.
• Leaderboards have fake money right now

Proposal

• Anyone can create a “community”. (Note: Stephen suggested we call them a “fold”, which I like)
  • Defined by a set of tags and a set of authorized market creators
    • If a market has an approved tag AND an approved creator, it is part of the community
  • Only the creator of the community can modify the community
    • This person is called the curator. Communities are “curated by” this person.
    • Gives the community a name and slug
    • Can edit the list of approved tags and creators
      • Could consider having the option to blacklist creators instead of whitelisting them
    • The curator can specify other communities whose markets are all included
    • Individual markets can be included or excluded, regardless of tag or creator
• Each community has its own page
  • Which shows hot markets, a feed, and leaderboards
    • These are all computed on the fly from the set of included markets
• You can follow as many communities as you want
  • Your home page shows hot markets / a feed of the union of all markets in any communities you follow
  • New accounts start by following a default community that Manifold curates

Workflow

• V0: Create a community “Georgism”
  • Pick a few tags “#Georgism” “#Land” “#LVT”
    • Who chooses tags on markets?
      • Today: Creators pick tags
      • Simple: Users can also pick tags
      • Maybe: Suggestion interface
      • Maybe: Input for tags on create/market page
        • Auto-suggest tags
  • Blacklist some markets you don’t like “Will my rent be too high next month”
  • Georgism page is created
• V1: Users opt in to Georgism community
  • See Georgism in their feed

Benefits

• Users can feel free to create many more markets that are correctly categorized and seen in the feed of relevant communities
• Curators compete to offer the sets of markets people want
• You can easily opt-in to the topics you are interested in
  • Easier than twitter because you can get a whole group of them instead of following each creator individually
• It’s fun to explore different communities’ feeds
• Markets are not siloed within a single community
  • More cross-pollination