[ff12wq111]

The "stupid people vote" point is brutally honest and probably true. But even in traditional politics, we accept that trade-off for legitimacy. I guess I'm wondering if online communities need the same legitimacy, or if they can try different experiments.

What do you think - are online communities fundamentally different from political systems, or subject to the same constraints?

[p_ing]

Unless the community is a political one, it is fundamentally different operating by different social rules and standards.

[ff12wq111]

That's a really interesting distinction. You're right that tech communities operate under different social contracts than political ones.

I'm curious what you think those different "social rules and standards" should be? Like, in a political system, we accept inefficiency for legitimacy.

Do you think a proposal system where voting power is earned through contribution would create fundamentally different dynamics than traditional political voting? Would that change the types of decisions that get made?

[psychoslave]

How something operating under any set of social rules and standard be supposed to be void of political beliefs and consequences?

Look at where they tell "we don't make politics here" and see where the political power is actually being enforced at its outmost practical level.

Some people seem to think that going to toilet is not political, ignoring the fact that having the underlying infrastructure to have toilets require a while city and political organization to keep it operational.