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Liberum Consilium: a system design for moderated deliberation [pdf]
- chm 12y agoI skimmed it. One thing that caught my attention is the so-called "RA": Prior to voting, voters must communicate their intent to participate with a Registration Authority (RA). Nowhere is it discussed what exactly is the RA, who is part of it etc. Moderators are supposedly "randomly" chosen and given a random amount of time to do their job, but Reputation influences moderator selection. Relatively high positive reputation increases the odds of selection while negative reputation decreases it. This positive contributor bias aims to contain the influence of special interest groups. That's not random and leaves space to game the system. I think giving more moderating time to higher rep would be better than choosing moderators from a small pool of users.
- jhrobert 12y agoThat's another attempt to fix the "representative democracy" crisis. Unfortunately I saw nothing about "Liquid Democracy" delegations? With pure direct votes only, participation will suffer because voting often on many matters is inconvenient to most people. The "tagging" of proposals is nice. However, who define the "tag hierarchy"? Is it even necessary to have such a hieararchy, I don't think so.
- mooneater 12y agoThe token from the Registration Authority seems to defeat coercion-resistance and receipt-freeness. Unless it was handled using strong crypto primitives (and how long do those last?) that would preclude looking up how this one user voted, it would result in a rather evil system. Otherwise I like it.