Other platforms as source of policy

[jkarni]

Currently, to add a policy, a user must provide the link to a JSON policy document. We recommend using github as a platform for changes and discussions of the JSON file, and rawgithub as the link.

There's no reason to not use other platforms. For example, we could use Twitter in the following way: a policy URL is just a Twitter handle (the timeline URL). Then any tweet by that account that follows a particular format (e.g. "We are BLOCKING from to ") would count as part of the policy; picket would parse the HTML (or if we can find some JSON API that runs without auth creds, the JSON) to find these tweets.

@nickmvincent and Hanlin Li suggested a great example, which is using a subreddit. Anyone can post something with the specified format; if it gets enough upvotes (in a certain timespan, say) then it's considered part of the policy. Discussions can then happen naturally within the post.