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This is a great question. I've been using Polis for maybe 5 years.
The "pass" is a catch-all for many things[1], including "rejecting a premise". It's non-obvious in the current interface, but there's room for coaching/learning how to engage with "complex/mixed" statements. For example, statements you encounter that conflict with your own emotional or factual sensibilities, which you're reluctant to respond to in a simple way (with agree/disagree). In this case, users can just "pass" on that statement, and immediately go below and submit a new "corrected" statement, or alternatively divide that one statement into a few separate ones, that can be reacted to more authentically.
That way, you're not forced to weigh in on things you find to be leading statements or overly simplistic. And the pool of statements for everyone becomes ever-more-nuanced through these sorts of interactions, and the map of the sentimental landscape becomes more high-resolution :)
[1]: https://github.com/compdemocracy/polis/discussions/774
Certainly a number of valid concerns here. Like any tool, polis is as good as its context, usage, data inputs.
I can offer a specific case study with data:
A debrief: https://pep.org.nz/2020/12/01/doc-tries-to-restore-e-democra...
The professional facilitators who work at nation scale in NZ: https://pep.org.nz/
The convo: https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1908/S00014/scoop-hivemind...
The reporting: https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1911/S00063/biodiversity-h...
Raw data: https://github.com/compdemocracy/openData/tree/master/scoop-...
This is an ideal use case, but it is encouraging to us (and has motivated me over the course of the past decade) that given some combination of factors, there can be real progress, and while yes, it takes a bit of work, we do spend an enormous amount of time and money on worse outcomes than this. So, we can "save one starfish" https://raycenter.wp.drake.edu/2018/06/29/the-starfish-story... and put some lights on the horizon of other possible systems, should we inspire some millions, then tens of millions, then hundreds of millions to be spent on other political activities than driving wedges.