Attracting and Maintaining Quality Contributors
I have realized another way to think of the Wisdom Project Machine. It is a type of think tank. (Yes, I know this may have been quite obvious…but I am slow sometimes.)

The Wisdom Project is an open democratic think tank. Anyone can contribute, participate, and influence the product of the Wisdom Forum Think Tank. Therefore it is truly democratic. Yet, the machinery and the wisdom rating system determines which contributions end up being presented as a final product.

Cash Prizes can be the initial stimulation, but eventually the mere prestige of having a high wisdom rating, or having the highest rated post of the month will hopefully be enough to motivate people to contribute. Many people are addicted to such debate and dialogue anyways…

Monthly Newsletter/Publication
Once the machine gains enough momentum a monthly publication featuring the “wisest” solutions would be an easy step.

The Culture of Dialogue
I want the dialogue in the Wisdom Forum to be continuously driven to be as accessible and clear as possible. Life is not that complicated, but intellectuals often obfuscate discussions to such a degree it completely alienates most people.

All people want to live happy lives.
In order to be happy all people need several things.
For example, all children need an education.
Or for another example, all adults need a job.

I want to invite the most revered economics and political science thinkers in the world to post on our site, but I do not want these basic needs reduced to a tidal wave of economic theory, statistics, and subtle reflections on the power of interest rates. I want them to state clearly their solution to the problem that millions of people do not have jobs.
For instance, if an economist says we should reduce an interest rate in order to stimulate the economy…how does this suggestion actually relate to the million people without jobs?

Abstracting for the Masses
Perhaps…whenever someone posts something particularly long and intricate, perhaps even thoroughly researched and backed up with statistics, then we could have people abstract the “solution” into something much easier to digest.

For example, a detailed and easy to grasp synopsis of things like:

The No Child Left Behind Law
This law basically does 2 things:
It requires that every child in every school takes the same set of standardized tests in order to track the performance of the schools.
It sets minimum performance standards and any schools that fail to meet these standards will be forced to take “corrective action” and then possibly face total “reorganization” .
In a nutshell, the motivation for schools, administrators and teachers lay in the fact that “corrective action” and “reorganization” can very easily mean LOSS OF JOBS. So it is basically shape up or ship out.
Any schools that are substandard will have some additional funding available to help them improve.