What this is
RaajjePulse is independent civic infrastructure: a public board of what people in the Maldives want fixed, ranked by votes, and a public record of sentiment on government decisions. It is a mirror, not a mailbox — it does not submit anything to the government, and it is valuable even if no official ever responds. It is operated as a neutral, non-partisan project. [Operator identity: to be published at launch.]
Counting honestly
Votes are counted without accounts. That means one person could vote more than once, so every count carries a permanent "unverified" label. Verified tiers (SMS, later eFaas) will appear alongside the unverified count — the label never disappears. We store no names, no phone numbers, no accounts, and no public identities: vote identities are keyed hashes that cannot be read back even by the operator. We deliberately do not claim the word "anonymous"; what we promise is minimum data.
How items reach the board
Nothing is published on our editorial say-so. Citizen submissions enter a public queue and publish when 25 people co-sign them within 30 days. Submissions can be written in Dhivehi or English; the missing translation is added before publishing and that addition is logged publicly.
The first 15 items
To start the board we seeded 10 pain points and 5 recent government decisions, chosen to be durable, service-delivery-shaped, and verifiable in public reporting — no seed names a party or person. Every seed is labeled "seeded" and must earn 25 co-signs OR 100 votes within 14 days, or it is removed with public status "expired". Decisions are factual events with a source link and are listed without the gate.
Removals
Items are removed only for: defamation of named private individuals, incitement, doxxing, or being a duplicate. Every removal appears in the public moderation log with the item id and a reason category — never the removed text. "Delisted" means a moderation removal; "expired" means a seed or queue item ran out its clock. Threshold changes (the 25) are also logged.
Colors are not opinions
On decision sentiment, agree is teal and disagree is orange — deliberately neither green nor red, because neither answer is "correct". Red is reserved for system errors, never for opinion data.
Media policy
Photo evidence on submissions is planned for a later milestone. When it ships: photos only, EXIF location/device data stripped server-side, held privately until an item publishes through the gate. The full policy will be added to this page before that feature goes live.
Open data
Everything on the board is available machine-readable at /data.json. Cite it, build on it, check our math.