The first thing to know is, you have to be a panelist to host, and by host we mean start an xchange. To do that you create a host post using the Civol Recorder and publish it. This means you only see the Add Host Post button if you're already a panelist.

The Civol Player plays xchanges, a set of posts from a panel of speakers on a specific discourse (issue) and thread. The top-level origin post for an xchange is what we call a host post, and all the other posts in the exchange are called reply posts.

To understand how to approach hosting a Civol discourse you only need to remember the structure of an ordinary TV talk show — the host speaks, the panelists reply, the host speaks again, the panelists reply again, and so on. In Civol we call these xchanges.

Every Civol conversation is a series of xchanges between a host and a set of replying panelists, and every xchange is based on what we call, simply enough, a host post. The host posts, the panelists reply, and you see it all in the same player, which we call the Xchange Player.

Civol transforms both news and governance by delivering what we call a 4D experience — Decentralized Digital Direct Democracy — where users vote their level of resonance with everything the experts on screen say, which over time evolves discourse and debate toward measurable consensus. We believe this 4D paradigm can be applied to any problem faced by any community, including nations and even planets, but we're going to start with an instance dedicated to the Internet Computer, Dfinity.Civol, because we're building the final and ultimate version of Civol on the Internet Computer.

Civol is about to be born now on the Internet Computer, and like all births, it needs to be done carefully if the baby is to develop to its full potential.

With this in mind then, it's hard to overemphasize the importance of the founding speakers in establishing good examples for the next round of onboarding users. Written instructions are important, but what we really want as users is to just grok the app first go, as in, see what other people are doing and do likewise.

As a governance service, voting is baked into Civol's media consumption flow. Voting is the life blood of every community, and is naturally the foundation of collective decision making.

So after you watch a video post on Civol you may be asked how much you agree or resonate with what the speaker just said. It's pretty much effortless and actually kind of gratifying, not to mention rewarded with CVL tokens.