• Needs a skip option for questions you’re really not comfortable giving a reply to (I maybe missed it if there). I hit one I really did feel was far too subjective to give a reply to that might even potentially be taken seriously.

    Otherwise a nice idea.

      • Allow to skip and answer an altwrnat answer. (if the questioner wish that.) otherwise allow to answer standard excuse like:

        • Please think further, this are not the only options
        • I do not understand the Question
        • You need a better help than a crowd can give you
        • 1 year

          Thank you Ratatouile! There is currently a REPORT button, but indeed, i really see a high priority need clearly for SKIP! Do you think it would be confusing to have it as a Joker Card that you can play once (to skip) or does it just need a SKIP button (that you can only use once)

          • Why not just allow unlimited skips, but make it so that you have to respond to 6 in total before you can see your results?

            • 1 year

              It’s going to really depend on the amount of traffic to make this possible but the idea is to get a totally diverse jury answering questions on anything…i.e. the opposite of somewhere like Reddit where you you pick your communities. So you have a true cross section of our world answering you and get a global perspective that is nothing like your peer group. For that to happen, one needs to answer all the questions as best as you can. And when it launches properly, it will be one free question a day which will also bring a different element…If there are 50,000 people playing at any given time (this is what i’m hoping for this year! i’m very hopeful and very optimistic!) then you will have far less “juryduty” time! But anyway, a HUGE thank you for playing and for your feedback! I’m keeping a note of every comment!!! It’s gold!

          • I think people should not be forced to answer. Cause answers should be well answered. I think questionairs should see how many skiped the answer until 12 answer could got, to get an idea how difficult their question was. may add a timout for around 7s for the skip button so people are confronted and could not avoid it to fast.

        • Yeah I think allowing a write in answer is too risky. You will end up with 12 unique text answers otherwise.

          I do like the idea of the equivalent of an open verdict. Which is probably a mix of options 1 and 3 from your list. If you don’t believe either of the provided options are suitable and you don’t want to skip then this option would be a nice thing.

          • 1 year

            Thank you!! this discussion is just HEAVEN getting live feedback! Been working on the idea fo 16 years (and then finally this last year to actually make a live app!) but it’s so exciting to see people play!

  • Very nice. Jury duty is fun. But I feel we need a third option for questions like: “I am a manager of company with 200 employees. We want to introduce a rewards system for perfect attendance (zero sick days or absences). Two days extra holiday or a financial reward.”
    Both answers suck, and the correct answer is: you’re the a*hole for incentivising your employees to come in sick, and either infect other people as well, or not take time to recover and get worse.

    • An abstain, maybe? Would also be useful for questions that you won’t know enough to answer. Then if you keep getting hung juries you know you’re asking bad questions.

      • 1 year

        Thank you so much for playing!! It’s super exciting to see all this priceless feedback! I’m working on a SKIP button (thinking of a JOKER card to play, but maybe that’s confusing?)

        • 1 year

          I think an additional button ‘None of these options’ would be an addition even with SKIP.

          It makes a different point of having seen the question, options and explicitly agreeing to none of them. And that should also be shown as a percentage in the results.

          Nowadays a new tool is rare. Great idea and implementation!

      • 1 year

        Maybe let them know how many people skipped their question?

      • Sure, I think that’ll do. I mean I love to tell people on the internet that they’re idiots… But a simple “Skip” would do, if OP fears this is going to drag down the place. On the other hand… Forcing people to pick an option has its benefits, too. But there’s a limit with user generated questions. (And I’m not even sure if the ones I saw were user-generated. They were mostly productive, proper questions and without spelling errors…)

        • There’s definitely problems with that option. But in the situation you described I’d just say fuck you and close the page rather than support that. People immediately leaving is probably worse than bad questions don’t get answers.

      • 1 year

        Hello Sincerity! Thanks so much for playing JURY NOw! Indeed, I’m working on a SKIP button! (I don’t have a tech background so it’s taking a while but it’s my priority!!)

    • 1 year

      Thank you so much for playing!! It’s going to be freemium model always, as in one free daily play for everyone forever…and then a premium version will include: 12 Flags to see where your jury is located, AND a 3rd option!

      • Alright, seems fine. Just make sure you include some privacy statement if you process the user’s IP addresses and location. And maybe give a very rough location only.

    • 1 year

      Thank you HEndrik! REally apprecaite you playing AND taking the time to write feedback!! Indeed, It’s always goign to be a FREEMIUM model (my new word of the year!) with one free daily play, and then to monetize it, there will be a premiuim version where you can see 12 flags from where you jury is from, AND have a 3rd options!

    • 1 year

      Can you tell me what you mean here please? JuryNow® is Trademarked in every country!

      • 1 year

        You posted in a self hosting community, a lot of people are going to want to host this themselves.

        Neat idea and site, but if your just advertising I think your in the wrong community.

  • I like the idea, but it needs a privacy policy. If someone answered 100 of those questions, the insight into their behaviour would be incredibly valuable to bad actors.

    Guaranteeing anonymity would make this much better.

    • 1 year

      I like the idea, but it needs a privacy policy. If someone answered 100 of those questions, the insight into their behaviour would be incredibly valuable to bad actors.

      Guaranteeing anonymity would make this much better. Good point and yes, that’s something I’ve thought about a lot.

      Right now, JuryNow doesn’t store any personal data or persistent user identifiers. The questions and votes are not linked to individuals in a way that would allow tracking behavior over time.

      Still, I agree that a clear privacy policy is overdue even just to explain what isn’t collected. Thanks for raising this. I’ll prioritize adding it. There is a User Agreement, Liability, Disclaimer etc…but yes, need a privacy policy!

      • JuryNow doesn’t store any personal data or persistent user identifiers. The questions and votes are not linked to individuals in a way that would allow tracking behavior over time.

        Great to hear!

        There is a User Agreement, Liability, Disclaimer etc…

        Are these currently in place? I don’t see links to them on the homepage, or during the sign-up screen.

  • So can I self-host it, or are you just drive-by advertising in a vaguely-related forum?

    • 1 year

      JuryNow is not open-source or self-hostable, and won’t be.

      This is a personal project I’ve developed over many years (16), and I’m still shaping where it goes. I shared it here because it’s lightweight, browser-based, and real-time and not because it’s federated or designed for open deployment.

      I fully respect the open/self-hosting ethos but this is NOT that, and I’d like to be upfront about it.

  • 1 year

    I’m curious how people here feel about the balance between anonymity and usefulness in something like this. If you think it’s a fun game or a useful resource?

    The goal was to make something fun and meaningful, a way to see yourself from the outside and get a global perspective and get a little dopamine hit. It’s a sort of gamification of Solomon’s Paradox (the ancient king who gave brilliant advice for his people, but was disastrous at his own decisions!)

    I’d love to know what kind of questions you would ask 12 strangers!

    • A bit of both for small decisions. I’d trust it with little things and for more important stuff it could work for the trick where you flip a coin and figure out which thing you actually wanted by gauging your reaction to the result.

  • Reloading the page results in me being asked to vote on the same questions again.

  • Fun idea. Seems like a lot of people are asking questions that have nothing to do with making a binary choice. I got a fair few “have you ever…?” questions that were about my personal life.

    • 1 year

      Thanks so much for playing!! you can really use it for a whole variety - from silly trivial questions, to a mini political poll knowing you are getting an answer in real time…and it’s great for fashion dilemmas as you can upload two images and get NOT your family/friends opnion!

      • Maybe if it gets popular you can implement categories of some sort? So people who don’t want to opine on certain topics can tap out before getting those questions

  • Do you feel guilty when your phone battery goes below 40%?

    • Yes, oh shit, I need to charge!
    • No, fuckit, let it run dead.
    • I run it dead periodically so I can get a proper analysis on its overall health.

      To the obsessed morons who refuse to go outside of 80%/20%: No, this doesn’t impact it in any meaningful way

  • I wish I could find out (at a later date) how the overall vote turned out.

    Did the jury decide on 2 days vacation or the money?

  • I’m just getting:

    Please moderate the content of your question before submitting it.

    • 1 year

      Hello Pageflight - It’s hard to moderate the questions for hate speech/sexual content etc… so I had to put a filter on, and indeed, it can be a little preventative…sorry! Will see if I can loosen it a littled!

  • Neat idea, but most question askers seem to be shoehorning their questions into the binary format instead of thoughtfully considering what the actual binary choice would boil down to. The low quality of questions makes me not want to participate in the jury duty option. I wish I had a suggestion- I’m sure you want to keep things simple and accessible

    • 1 year

      Thanks so much for trying it out and your honest feedback! It’s definitely dependent on the quality of questions for the “fun” element, but knowing that 12 dvierse random people who aren’t connected to you in any way are looking at your question, can be extremely eye opening…connecting to random people around teh world - it’s sort of what the internet was intended for?

  • I just reported a question, not because of the content of the question but because the buttons were formatted strangely and clocking on them caused the question to refresh. It was about cassettes vs CDs.

    Other than that, this is pretty fucking legit. What a simple, fun, useful tool! And I mean simple as in “easy to explain,” not “easy to make.”

    Thank you for sharing!!!

    ETA: I just got served either the same question twice (with a different question between each time), or found duplicate questions. If the same question twice, I’d be concerned about individuals skewing results. If a duplicate question is being submitted, it might be helpful (albeit slower) to run word matches against strings and then check the IP address of the submitter (if you record that) on anything with over 90% match and then let that user know they’ve already submitted this question.