Consolidation and Navigation of Forum Activity
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This forum has gone through ups and downs in activity, but over the years it has generated a lot of content that can be intimidating to parse. @Jack-Waugh (and others? don’t let me leave them out) has done a fantastic job of putting this forum website together, and the council and moderators contribute to keep the site up and active while many users generate great content.
With today’s LLMs, we have an opportunity to consolidate and organize a lot of the information here into a more navigable, unsupervised and context driven resource. This is something I would like to work on at some point in the future, but I am also quite busy with my own responsibilities outside of this forum.
I’m just putting this out there to get other minds thinking on the subject. I may simply not have spent enough time with the forum interface to make a clear assessment of navigability, but my impression is that as it stands, one mostly has to know what they’re looking for already to find it, and even the content within our broad categories has become fairly diverse. Is this something others agree with? Otherwise, how do you navigate content? Do you simply keep up with the latest topics in the forum and recall connections to prior discussions by memory? Or is there a system you use? Lastly, is this a non-issue?
I’m noticing that tags are underused (I am definitely guilty of this), and are only visible through mobile in landscape mode. That may be part of the problem.
I’d be pleased to hear any thoughts on this. Thank you!
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In terms of consolidation we have the electowiki, which is a good place to put stuff.
But you can search the forum quite easily. Click on the magnifying glass at the top and you can search for terms. I can normally find what I'm looking for fairly quickly. I would say this is better than for other discussion groups like Reddit or Facebook.
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Hi @cfrank - as @Toby-Pereira mentioned, there is electowiki for consolidating ideas from over here. At this point, I'm already relying on some pretty substantial help from LLMs for the tools I use to put together the electorama news. The latest draft edition is here:
https://electowiki.org/wiki/ElectoramaNews/2026-January
The prose in the ElectoramaNews is pretty much all mine, but the code I've "written" to provide the summaries of each of the forums (like my summary of this forum) was mostly generated from a vibecoded script I run periodically. My hope is that I'll be able to provide a more-and-more sophisticated summary of the various forums every month, and maybe I can have my tools call the LLMs to provide the summaries of the discussions. Right now, the "summary" in many sections is basically just a link to every forum post or email or whatever.
Hopefully, by regularly publishing ElectoramaNews, we'll be able to drive some traffic over here to the Voting Theory forum.
