A group of n people chatting freely produces easily n^2
statements. "cicdd" for instance produced about 10000
messages for about 100 members.
Against that we may set 20 statements for about 100
participants in the Haifa Israel/Palestine Workshop.
The number of non-redundant statements pertinent
to an issue does NOT depend on number of participants,
but exclusively on the issue. Thus 10000 participants
could add to Haifa Workshop 1 or 2 possibly omitted
statements, but we may estimate 30 as the practical
limit. On condition, of course, to strictly filter
synonyms.
Now, filtering of synonyms could be done for the small 
group by hand, which is unthinkable for 10000 participants,
let alone for millions in the case of a real Forum at
country level.
Without synonym filter 10000 participants of the Haifa
Workshop would produce 10^8 statements, i.e. an enormous
mountain of totally uncontrollable chaos.
We shall discuss further the problem of synonym filtering
in "synonym filter" below.
CHILDREN
synonym filter
PARENTS
debate principles
postulates, definitions and principles
DEMOCRACY
WORKSHOPS
ARCHIVE