Argyle

Description of Argyle here.

What's the goal?

Running Argyle yourself

To-do:

• prescribe a certain number of players
• tell people how to scale

Included in this kit:

• User Profiles
• Emoji Cards
• Comment Cards
• Badges
• "How to Play"
• Status Overlays
  • Take time off notice
  • Please register notice
  • Hidden from view notice
  • Low HP

What you'll need:

• A large open wall in a central location
  • If you have a white board wall, great! If not, you'll need paper and tape to affix items to the wall.
• Normal tape (LOTS)
• Masking tape (optional)
• Post-its, normal-sized
• Post-its, small-sized
• Sharpies

First Create

• A prompt

  • A headline or topic that your community would be interested in talking about. We recommend picking a prompt that takes a stance, as opposed to something that's open-ended. This allows people to actively agree or disagree.
  • For example, we used Olympics Reject 'Mind Sports' for 2020 with the subhed No Chess Grandmasters or Pro Games Allowed in Tokyo

• An article (optional)

  • Since we were originally testing how readers would respond to a news article, we also included a printed version of an article next to our prompt. Doing so also gave participants more points to disucss and debate.

• Community guidelines (optional)

  • Depending on your community, you may want to create your own community guidelines for how to interact with the wall. For example, you could ban curse words. Other communities will already have Codes of Conduct you could re-iterate.

Physical Set-up

1. Write your prompt at the top-most area of the wall, or write it on multiple sheets of paper and tape it to the wall. Participants should be able to read your prompt from a distance.

2. Beneath the prompt, draw a line (or draw the line on a long piece of mask tape). This will separate your prompt from the discussion.

3. Create a few sample comments and post them. This will give participants an idea of how they can interact with the wall.

4. On the side, tape up a copy of "How to Play" and your community guidelines.

5. On a table or chair next to the wall, place:

   • One stack of user profiles
   • One stack of comment cards
   • One stack for each type of emoji card, pre-cut
   • A lot of tape
   • Sharpies

6. Create a small workplace (like a desk) nearby that a team member could use to monitor behavoir.