PolicyKit
Toolkit for building and running community governance rules.
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About PolicyKit
The page describes PolicyKit as an open-source tool for democratising community governance online. It is built for online community members who want to author a wide range of governance procedures.
The site offers a Majority Voting template among others. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is named among the project's funders.
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How it works
PolicyKit is a research project from the University of Washington that lets a community write its own governance rules in code and have them run against the platform it lives on (Slack, Discord, Reddit and others). A rule might say "a message deletion needs three moderator votes" or "new members are admitted after a 24 hour comment period." PolicyKit intercepts the action, runs the vote or check, and then executes it via the platform's API.
It's an academic tool with a working web app, best for communities that want to experiment with democratic or procedural moderation rather than pure admin control.
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