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The Document is Alive

Consensus polling uses the power of wiki, where the document we're working on can be changed by anyone. Rather than have competing proposals, we're all working on the same dynamic and editable solution. The best way for ConsensusPollParticipants to effectively express their opinion is to actually change the document, so that it coincides with their viewpoints (see EfficientlyExpressedSuggestions). Participants can edit the document at anytime during the process. This might mean the document goes from:

The sky is blue.

to

The earth is flat.

to

The sea is green and so is my couch.

to

The blue sky is over the flat earth.

to

The green sea is beneath the blue sky.

to

The earth is round, made up of land and sea beneath the blue sky.

to

The earth is flat.

to

The earth is round, made up of land and sea beneath the blue sky. We know that it is round because if it were flat, we'd fall off.

and so on.

This continues until a general agreement is reached.

The document takes life and grows stronger as we learn to work in a collaborative manner.