Has anyone compared in detail the various rights/privileges/responsibilities articulated in the terms of agreement related to online forums? Or compared the evolution of forum rules with off-line debate practices in legislative assemblies or forms of in-person deliberative democracy? E-Democracy.Org is reworking our rules for our second decade and would appreciate any suggestions/links/comments: http://www.e-democracy.org/center/draftrules.html Our forums work in practice, but we could use some help to have them work in theory. Without more in-depth research it is difficult to determine in a world of scare time and resources, what online civic engagement models are the most cost-effective, sustainable, powerful, civil, agenda-setting, etc. Thanks, Steven Clift P.S. Recent headlines from our forums on a draft page: http://www.e-democracy.org/today.html Steven Clift - http://publicus.net - Reply to: clift@publicus.net Join DoWire: http://e-democracy.org/do Speaking requests: http://publicus.net/speaker.html Watch my BBC World interview: http://publicus.net/media.html