How SyloSpace works
Search a topic. Enter its Sylo. Help shape what comes next.
A Sylo is a page about a meaningful question. It brings together evidence, firsthand experience, competing perspectives and participant opinion, and it changes as people contribute.
1. Search first
Start with a question. If a Sylo already covers it, you go straight there, with a way back to the other results in case the match is wrong. If nothing fits, you can propose a new Sylo; moderators review proposals before anything is published or researched.
2. Understand what is known now
The current finding comes first, followed by the evidence behind it, what people have experienced, where they disagree and what is still uncertain. Every part is labelled with the kind of knowledge it is:
- Evidence-backed. Supported by identified source material. Check the cited passages, dates and limits.
- Experienced. Firsthand reports from contributors. Self-reported and unverified unless stated.
- Participant opinion. Preferences, votes and predictions from self-selected SyloSpace participants.
- Interpretation. A synthesis or inference drawn from the material above. Not a finding on its own.
3. Add what you know
Share direct experience, add a source, explain a different view, point out something missing, answer an open question, propose a solution or ask for clarification. Your words are kept as you wrote them, with an edit history.
4. The page itself evolves
Periodically, and when meaningful new material arrives, the page's brief is updated. AI may help organise the material, but a person reviews every update before it is published, and every published version is kept. When your contribution shapes the page, you receive a Trace that says exactly how. If the page later changes again, the Trace says so too.
5. Polls are opinion, not proof
Polls show what self-selected SyloSpace participants think. They show the number of responses and the period, keep your individual response private, and start over if the question's wording changes. A popular answer is never presented as evidence that a factual claim is true.