Notes on incentives, network societies, and fundable work

TODO.md

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 Commonality also keeps its own product/architecture backlog in [`commonality-ui/TODO.md`](./commonality-ui/TODO.md) (open incompleteness allowed at merge). Prefer filing Commonality-specific follow-ups there when they are package-local; use this root list for cross-cutting work or items that should be visible to any LLM picking up the project inbox.
 
+Civility still has a product gap between the copy and the screens. The details are in [`civility/TODO.md`](./civility/TODO.md). Content-funding follow-ups that are not Civility-specific are in [`content-funding/TODO.md`](./content-funding/TODO.md).
+
 When an item from this page is done and no longer needs an LLM implementor's attention, don't mark it "done", just delete it. I don't want this file to get cluttered with already-completed items.
 
 Fake data / seed content is a **standing plan**, not a pile of one-shots: read [`fake-data-generation/PLAN.md`](fake-data-generation/PLAN.md) and do the next unchecked item there (tiny UI world vs real statements vs stress traffic). Do not invent a parallel seed pipeline.
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+- **(Ask)** Generalize content funding into extensible structured work types: domain-defined canonical work-item IDs, explicit links to funding requests with duplicate-claim rules, structured creation forms, and item/sequence alignment attestations feeding fundable-projects boards. Capture and refine the design before implementation; see [Structured fundable work](specs/product/structured-fundable-work.md).
+
 - **(Tell)** Next fake-data/seed-data step lives in [`fake-data-generation/PLAN.md`](fake-data-generation/PLAN.md). Abortion, immigration, crime, and LGBT-schools triples are accepted; next is the demo-seed live UI pass.
 
 - **(Tell)** Next testnet-lab step lives in [`workflow/testnet-working-plan.md`](workflow/testnet-working-plan.md). Items 1–10 are checked. The nightly wrapper exports the mutation flag itself. The job still exits red until the local deep-stack item below passes. Indexer ingest is in [`inbox.md`](inbox.md) only if GraphQL goes red again. Do not mix with mass fake activity or mainnet.

civility/TODO.md

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+# Civility backlog
+
+Civility is the noninflammatory vertical on top of content funding. The site
+today is mostly that machinery with Civility copy. These items are the gap
+between that and a board of posts that passed the civility check, plus a way
+to put money on the property itself.
+
+Untagged items are **Ask**. See [task autonomy tiers](../workflow/task-tiers.md).
+When an item is done, delete it.
+
+The general "pick a property, see its board" surface lives in
+[`content-funding/TODO.md`](../content-funding/TODO.md). Civility should be one
+property on that surface, not a one-off list.
+
+----
+
+- **Browse attested items, not only contracts.** Cause boards list assurance
+  contracts. A content item can be *included* in a contract, but nothing shows
+  the items themselves: posts that passed a check, whether or not someone has
+  already wrapped them in a contract. Build a browsable item list. Useful
+  scopes:
+  - Items that are not already in a contract. Cap what is shown (age or
+    another bound) so the list stays finite. Each viewer needs a way to hide
+    items they do not want to see again.
+  - Items from one channel.
+  - Items from a set of channels the viewer follows.
+  Civility's first cut is that list filtered to items a trusted attester has
+  marked noninflammatory. The same surface is what Content Funding needs for
+  any property, and later for work items in general. Content items have not
+  been generalized to work items yet; when they are, this UI is the browser
+  for them too. See
+  [Structured fundable work](../specs/product/structured-fundable-work.md).
+
+- **Finish "Explore fundable content."** The landing-page link currently opens
+  the same X / YouTube / Substack creator directory as Content Funding. It
+  should open the attested-item board above (the civility property), not a
+  channel index.
+
+- **Finish "put money on the property."** Donors can fund a specific channel
+  or piece. There is no Civility screen for pledging toward noninflammatory
+  content as a kind — the cause-pool path the docs describe — including
+  delegating the picks. Build that screen so the landing-page promise is a
+  flow, not a paragraph.

content-funding/TODO.md

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+# Content Funding backlog
+
+Cross-cutting content-funding follow-ups. Civility-specific screens stay in
+[`civility/TODO.md`](../civility/TODO.md).
+
+Untagged items are **Ask**. See [task autonomy tiers](../workflow/task-tiers.md).
+When an item is done, delete it.
+
+----
+
+- **Pick a property, see its board.** An attester profile is a configurable
+  prompt (Civility's noninflammatory check is one profile). The UI has no way
+  to choose a property and see the posts a trusted attester has marked as
+  having it. Add that: a property is a configured content check, and its board
+  is the item list described in the Civility backlog (not-yet-in-a-contract,
+  one channel, or a set of channels). Civility is the first property, not a
+  separate product. "Explore kinds of content" is four static labels today;
+  this replaces that.

docs/end-user/commonality/vision-and-strategy/credible-solution/README.md

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   - And the rest — [getting stuff done effectively](./effectiveness.md), [matching supply and demand](./matching.md), [discovery and vetting](./discovery.md) — is handled by mechanisms that are less novel but still concretely better than what we have.
   - The same primitive also powers [matching funds](./matching-funds.md) — the friendly, cooperative twin of the [credible threat](../hard-to-stop/credible-threat.md).
   - The reason this adds up to a *government-scale* solution rather than a nicer Kickstarter: [delegation and at-cost reimbursement are what let you fund a whole ecosystem](./beyond-one-project.md), not just one project at a time.
+  - One picture of what that ecosystem can be aimed at: [something like a network society, without the society](./network-societies.md).
 
 ## Why is funding public goods hard?