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Nothing's stopping you to use IRC this way, and it's trivial to add a bot to your channel with a poll feature. The problem isn't that nobody has designed or cr

• rektide 4y ago
  > The problem isn't that nobody has designed or created such a system: it's that they're not very popular. This assertion would be more interesting if there were more visible attempts. I haven't found anything on github I can deploy to moderate a channel via any kind of public-governance or other models. Can you? Personally, I think we've done very little experimentation, and the gerontocratic rulers we dwell under generally would prefer staying in tight control. You talk about popularity, but popular for who? Even if some kind of democratic governance gained mass popularity, how many mods would be willing to hand over their long held control over channels/sites?