This help is intended to be supplementary. We try to make things self-explanatory using
in-place explanations and tooltips so you can just jump right in.
a tooltip
Informative stuff also happens when you roll your cursor over
things that look like this.
If you think something needs to be covered here that isn't though,
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We hate lies. We hate scams, spam, worms, and other evil things.
We've tried
to construct 22 true so as to make it useless and uninteresting
to liars, and we will do whatever we can
to keep it so.
An assertion is a statement about the
trueness of a
thing or person. In 22 true
assertions appear as
vertical bars
representing values from
absolutely true
to
absolutely false.
A bar that extends above the center line asserts how true something is, and one that extends
below, how false.
—The center line itself represents absolute neutrality—
An assertion can be either
explicit, or
inferred.
An
explicit assertion is made by
a
person clicking a bar while
editing.
a set of explicit assertions
An
inferred assertion is one generated
by the 22 true
inference engine as it combines assertions about thousands or even
millions of people and things. Combined assertions happen because
a person can actually create up to
30 explicit assertions:
22 about things and
8 about people.
People making assertions about other people
creates a potentially enormous network of assertions about assertions about assertions (...),
with 22 true calculating the strengths of the inferred assertions, and everyone discovering
previously undiscovered trueness.
some additional characteristics assertion bars may have:
additional characteristics
Depending on its state, a bar may have some of the following characteristics.
- a bar that can be selected has a color that indicates it is selected;
- inferred bars have a color that indicates the bar is waiting for a response from the server;
- any bar in view mode may have a little mark (near the neutral line) that indicates you have
recently visited its target (most browsers have a setting somewhere in their
history preferences governing what constitutes 'recently');
- each inferred bar has a 'who said what about this?' button that fetches
from the server all the explicit assertions that have been made about its target.
Each person's page can be seen in two modes. In
view mode, nothing is editable, and the
inferred
assertions are visible. This is the page to which you normally would link to show
people your 22. In
edit mode, stuff
is editable, and while you can look at (and play around with) anyone's page in edit mode, you
must
sign in to save changes. Almost every page has a link to
view/edit a 22 by ID.
People search queries can consist of single terms (words) or phrases
(groups of words surrounded by double quotes), and
term modifiers.
Our search engine uses the standard Lucene query parser, with one
difference: we use AND instead of OR as the default boolean operator.
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