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Fairy Dice

Two axes, one or two clicks

A thumbs-up conflates two different things: is it true and do I like it. Fairy Dice keeps them apart. The triangle's base speaks about truth (black = I agree, white = I disagree), the apex about your feeling (green = neutral, blue = I like it, red = I don't). The rating lands in an append-only ledger as a signal about the answer — it never touches the fact store.

Demo

Is soil and stones under code 17 05 04 a hazardous waste?

ENTAILED No — code 17 05 04 covers soil and stones other than those containing hazardous substances (those fall under 17 05 03*).

source: waste catalogue, Dz.U. 2020 item 10 — demo example

Legend

Your clicks compose one of six outcomes (scheme: GirlTech Fairy Dice — nerdwar.one/PR). The seventh state takes no click at all:

How it works

  1. The middle triangle starts black — "I agree with the statement". Think it's false? Click the middle: it turns white. Click again to switch back.
  2. Click a corner — that completes and saves the rating. One click when you agree, two when you don't. Aim for the middle of the triangle you choose, not the border between triangles.
  3. Misclick? "Undo rating" appends a retraction record. The ledger is append-only — a mistake is a new record, never an edit.
  4. You don't have to rate. No rating is the seventh state — "I don't know": the die did not land, no record is written. Absence of a rating is not a negative rating (scheme: seventh-state).

One model, two domains

The same split — separate what's true from what you feel about it — works outside fact-checking. Dr. Dan's teacher-evaluation model (Skola) asks students to rate two axes: how much they learned, and how much they liked it. One star can't hold both — a teacher can be disliked and still teach a lot.

Weryta ↔ Skola

Same shape, different domain: an axis for fact vs. feeling, or for learning vs. liking. Neither axis overwrites the other, and both are logged as a stream of ratings over time, not a single average.

live demo: skola.weryta.com

Pilot proposal — University of Maine

We're proposing a small, scoped pilot: Skola for UMaine faculty evaluation, adult participants only, a few hundred votes to start. Votes carry no persistent identifier — nothing links one vote to the next, so there's no register to decode against. Linking a person's votes over time is a separate, opt-in step that needs explicit consent, which adults can give; K-8 use is later still — it needs parental consent and FERPA-compliant infrastructure we haven't built yet.