Support Points (SP)

Support Points are how you say "this matters to me!"

What Support Points Actually Do

While voting is the final verdict on any matter, Support Points are what make a matter visible. They attract attention to it. They prioritize when it gets dealt with.

When you allocate SP to a proposal, you're signaling: "I think this deserves the community's focus." The more SP a proposal receives, the higher it rises in visibility.

• Higher SP → More visible, dealt with sooner
• Lower SP → Less urgent, waits its turn
• Your SP returns when proposals close — you're always choosing what matters now

That's it. SP shapes what gets attention. Voting decides what gets done.

Instead of an Algorithm

On corporate social media, an algorithm decides what you see. It's designed to maximize engagement — to keep you scrolling, consuming, distracted. The algorithm promotes endless information consumption, not understanding.

TogetherOS has no algorithm.

Instead, when you participate a lot — contributing, helping, proposing, learning — your opinion about what deserves attention carries more weight. It's like saying:

"I've been doing a lot of work here, and based on that, this is what I find most important to look at next."

The more you work with others and for the common good, the more voice you have in pointing out what's important. But that's all. Not decision-making power. Just attention-focusing power.

Setting the Narrative

Here's something worth being honest about: setting the agenda is itself a form of power.

In the current system, enormous resources flow into controlling what people think about. Politicians craft messaging. Media corporations choose which stories matter. Think tanks publish studies that frame debates. Advertising campaigns manufacture desire. Social media bots amplify certain narratives while drowning others. All of it — money, power, social engineering — deployed to direct attention and shape decisions before anyone even votes.

Support Points are our equivalent of that function. But the "influencers" here aren't preachers or politicians or paid commentators or bot networks — they're the people who participate.

The more you contribute, the more your voice matters in setting the narrative. This influence is:

• Earned through participation, not purchased with money
• Distributed across everyone who contributes, not concentrated in few hands
• Bounded — it shapes attention, never overrides collective decisions

What SP Cannot Do

• SP cannot be bought — Money can never become Support Points
• SP cannot be traded or transferred — They're yours alone, earned through your participation
• SP doesn't give you more votes — One member, one vote, always
• SP doesn't decide outcomes — It only prioritizes what gets considered

How You Earn SP

You earn SP by participating:

• Completing onboarding challenges
• Contributing to proposals
• Participating in discussions
• Helping other members
• Attending events
• Completing microlessons

Each member starts with 100 SP after onboarding. You can allocate up to 10 SP per proposal. Your allocated SP returns when proposals close, so you're constantly choosing: what deserves attention right now?

SP vs Reward Points (RP)

The Principle

The people doing the work should have the most say in what's important to look at. Not the wealthy. Not the famous. Not an algorithm designed for addiction.

Participation earns influence over attention. The collective still makes the decisions.