[quintes]

In good faith, I’d love to know.

Democracy as Socrates or written by Plato would have said democracy is hard to succeed at as it’s ruled by many who may not have the education.. wisdom.. to run well for all. Read Ship of State.

A certain level of freedom of speech is required, or else it’s a pool of similar thinkers. A collective who everyone else must talk and think alike, for the good of the collective. See Ayn Rand.

Pretty much like downvoting, I get downvoted without knowing who or why and is a form of censorship and one or more are offended or just don’t like it. Just cuz you don’t like it doesn’t mean it should be downvoted.

My other comment here on YT shorts being useful is an example. A down vote and all I said is “ I learnt drums for a song I like from shorts. Blanket bans are not a solution”

Take care to not apply so much policy that group think and collectivism takes hold.

[ff12wq111]

You're absolutely right about these concerns, and I should be more honest - we don't have a magic solution to groupthink. Even our transparency isn't absolute - we only guarantee proposal transparency, not complete visibility.

But I think a community's real vitality might come from self-direction rather than top-down solutions. Democratic processes themselves promote community self-purification.

In our ideal community, everyone has the right to propose. Every proposal goes to public vote with open voting. When proposals pass and get executed, that execution itself improves the community. This might be closer to what an ideal community looks like.

Our ideal community has only one rule: community-driven. That's all.

I tend to describe it as a kind of utopia - where the community continuously evolves through its own collective decisions rather than having solutions imposed from outside. Maybe the answer to groupthink isn't preventing it, but creating systems where the community can organically correct itself over time.

It's admittedly idealistic, but I think there's value in experimenting with these utopian concepts, even if they don't solve every problem perfectly.

What do you think - can democratic self-governance actually lead to self-correction, or am I being too optimistic about human nature?

[quintes]

I think your proposal through to voting has merit, and a healthy community would pass good proposals, and hopefully you don’t get to an environment where people abstain. That means something is wrong and ultimately abstain is a vote in and of itself.

Self governance could end up like mutiny on the ship (I referred to that above) but we must have some form of governance or we have anarchy.

I wish you the best on the platform. Let us all know of any lessons you learn in time.

[ff12wq111]

Thank you for the encouragement! Your point about abstention being a vote itself is really insightful - we're actually planning to track that as a signal for when topics need more discussion.

I'll definitely share lessons learned. Honestly, we don't know if this will work, but current alternatives aren't working either, so worth the experiment.

Appreciate the well wishes!