About Jybe
Jybe is a platform for building common ground through cooperative fact-checking and multi-layered consensus. You can "agree to agree" on basic, easily verifiable facts, and "agree to disagree" on more complicated ideological issues. The goal is to build trust, reduce trolling and empty talking points, and make conversations more productive.
What Jybe helps you do
- Start a meaningful conversation: Jybe helps you hone your thoughts into supporting facts, value statements to support your ideas, and overall conclusions and policy proposals.
- Verify supporting facts: Jybe gives you tools to help fine tune and verify facts to back up your claims and opinions.
- Understand who is reacting in good faith: Jybe provides a consensus summary that shows who is in alignment with your sourced facts even if they disagree on ideology or policy.
- Participate in healthy debate: Jybe lets you take a stance on a discussion at multiple levels - supporting facts, value statements, and solutions & conclusions. By "jybe"ing with factual information, you are not strong-armed into supporting opinions.
- Keep the conversation moving: Reply not just with your own opinions, but also with your own supporting facts to help make the discussion more productive.
How to use Jybe
1) Login
Use the Invite code provided. The Handle can be any string with no spaces.
2) Compose a post
Go to Compose and write the post in Compose Post. Jybe will extract suggested statements into Consensus Building.
- While a statement is in Draft you can edit either the corresponding post text (which will edit the post) or text that will show in the Consensus Details. You can also add and remove consensus statements or change their consensus type to eitherSupporting Facts, Value Statements, or Solutions & Conclusions
- For any supporting fact, open Verdict and click Verify. Jybe will fact-check, give a verdict, and attach sources if available. If the verdict isn't "true", pre-verified alternatives will be offered that ("Did you mean to say this?") You can also add your own sources if you are confident in your supporting fact.
- Click Accept on statements that you want to publish with the post. The Accepted tab will show all accepted statements.
- Categories are optional to help with filtering posts in the home feed.
3) Interact with and reply to a post
Open a post from the Home feed.
- On the right side of the page you will see your level of consensus with the post. As you select a stance on the Consensus statements, your consensus level will update.
- By default a post will be annotated with the different types of Consensus statements. You can toggle annotations on and off. Clicking any of the annotated statements will take you to that statement in the Consensus Details.
- If you are viewing a reply in a post thread, you will have the option to browse through the Consensus Details of all posts in the thread via the up and down arrows.
- Supporting Facts have three stance options: Jybe (concur), Disagree, and Abstain.
- If you react and/or reply to a post, you will be given an alert if you haven't taken a stance on any Supporting Facts with a verdict of True. This is meant to curtail trolling and bots.
- Replies to a post are color coded based on the author's level of consensus with Supporting Facts that have a verdict of True.