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I dig this idea. During the early phase of Occupy Wall Street (OWS), participants would take turns speaking by standing up and the crowd would repeat their words for all to hear and wave certain fingers if they liked what they heard. As time went on though the younger than me core organizers began to play favorites with who would speak. I suggested A simple tech solution that would make it more Democratic - a hand held Random Number Generator (RNG) that could pick numbers randomly - given out on paper before hand from choosing from a bucket of numbers for those who wished to speak/be heard. Otherwise the extroverts/alphas end up speaking more than the introverts/Betas. They were finally going to try my idea but Mayor Bloomberg shut down OWS & Zuccotti Park. But anti-debate might be the new platform for my idea!

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