Right. But one of the things that strikes me that is different to the internet models, goes back to your original escape from middle school, where you said you just needed an email address and some bright ideas. One of the things I noticed in Polis is that it has a sort of physical avatar icon, which means that you can identify who somebody is. You can identify their gender; you can identify their age. And these are often things that skew our perception of an idea, whereas in the sort of purist, old form of internet culture, no one knew we were a dog, right? We were just the quality of our code, the quality of our postings, and some numeric ID.

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