The suggestion being replied to here was: "I would vote for any candidate that committed to letting its registered users decide every vote he or she made." I f

The suggestion being replied to here was: "I would vote for any candidate that committed to letting its registered users decide every vote he or she made." I fail to see how that is substantially different from direct democracy. What good would representative democracy be if each representative was just an empty vessel carrying out the collective wishes of a mass of Internet commenters?