Every topic, published

The bank

Every topic, published

This is the whole of it. No account, no email, nothing held back for members — you can read every topic and every option before you pay anything, and decide from that whether the product is asking the right questions.

What is in it

228 topics across 9 dimensions. 205 topics asked everywhere, 18 topics asked in one country, and 5 topics asked in one city. A topic is proposed at the narrowest scope that fits: Chicago votes on the CTA, Stockholm on congestion charging, and everybody votes on homeschooling.

Ten of them are the Core Ten and are asked when you join. Everything else is optional, and “prefer not to say” is a real answer rather than a gap.

Where the bank stands

228 in the founding bank0 added by vote0 with a retirement proposed0 under a retirement ballot now0 retired

Nothing has been contestedNo member has proposed adding, retiring or renewing any of these topics, and no ballot has ever been held. Every topic here shipped with the bank. That will change the first time somebody proposes something, and when it does it will show up on this page and in the ledger, including if it fails.

What is being voted on Every proposal there has ever been

Politics

47 topics

A future Calgary Olympic bidFounding bank
6 optionsAsked in ca-yycCurrent — faces renewal
Adopting the euroFounding bank
6 optionsAsked across SE
Border enforcementFounding bank
6 options
Broadly, where do your politics sit?Founding bank
9 optionsCore Ten
Capital punishmentFounding bank
6 options
Carbon taxesFounding bank
6 options
Civil disobedienceFounding bank
6 options
Compulsory military serviceFounding bank
6 options
Current immigration levelsFounding bank
6 optionsCurrent — faces renewal
Denser housing in existing neighbourhoodsFounding bank
6 options
Drug decriminalisationFounding bank
6 options
End-to-end encryptionFounding bank
6 options
Equalisation payments between provincesFounding bank
6 optionsAsked across CA
Expanding the CTAFounding bank
6 optionsAsked in us-chiCurrent — faces renewal
Foreign aid spendingFounding bank
6 options
Foreign military interventionFounding bank
6 options
Hate speech lawsFounding bank
6 options
Mandatory minimum sentencesFounding bank
6 options
Military spendingFounding bank
6 options
Minimum wage increasesFounding bank
6 options
NATO membershipFounding bank
6 optionsAsked across SE
Nuclear powerFounding bank
6 options
Nuclear weaponsFounding bank
6 options
Police funding levelsFounding bank
6 options
Privatisation of public servicesFounding bank
6 options
Proportional representationFounding bank
6 options
Publicly funded healthcareFounding bank
6 options
Refugee resettlement programmesFounding bank
6 options
Rejoining the European UnionFounding bank
6 optionsAsked across GB
Rent controlFounding bank
6 options
State surveillance of citizensFounding bank
6 options
Stricter federal firearm lawsFounding bank
6 optionsAsked across US
Supervised drug consumption sitesFounding bank
6 options
Supply management in dairy and poultryFounding bank
6 optionsAsked across CA
Tariffs on imported goodsFounding bank
6 options
Term limits for Supreme Court justicesFounding bank
6 optionsAsked across US
The BBC licence feeFounding bank
6 optionsAsked across GB
The Chicago casinoFounding bank
6 optionsAsked in us-chiCurrent — faces renewal
The Electoral CollegeFounding bank
6 optionsAsked across US
The Green Line LRTFounding bank
6 optionsAsked in ca-yycCurrent — faces renewal
The House of LordsFounding bank
6 optionsAsked across GB
The Senate filibusterFounding bank
6 optionsAsked across US
The monarchyFounding bank
6 options
The notwithstanding clauseFounding bank
6 optionsAsked across CA
Trade unionsFounding bank
6 options
Universal basic incomeFounding bank
6 options
Wealth taxesFounding bank
6 options

How a topic gets in, and out

A member proposes it. Any verified member whose account is at least 30 days old, one proposal per member per 30 days.
50 members second it within 30 days, or it goes no further. That is what keeps the ballot from filling with things nobody but the proposer cares about.
Members vote, for 30 days. A simple majority of the votes cast adds a topic; retiring one needs 60%, because removing a topic takes away a filter other people are relying on. Either way the ballot has to reach a quorum of 3% of the members eligible at its own scope.
An editor words it. The editor may not decline a topic members voted for. They decide only how it is asked, and the wording goes back to members for review.
It enters the bank, with its whole history attached.

A topic existing in the bank is not an endorsement of any answer to it. Answering anything outside the Core Ten is optional, so adding a topic coerces nobody — which is why the bar to add one is deliberately lower than the bar to take one away.

The five rules a vote cannot override Every topic in the bank

What the bank is not

Nothing topical shipped in it. Not a court case, not a war, not a bill going through a legislature. Those arrive the other way: a member proposes one, members vote it in, and members let it lapse when they are done with it. Anything the company preloads is the company deciding what matters, which is the thing this product exists to stop doing.

The topics that did ship are the ones that have ended relationships for generations — children, faith, money, monogamy, medicine, abortion, and where somebody’s politics sit. They are deliberately few and deliberately durable.