Re: [EM] democratic community, the web, implicit/explicit instant proxy

2006-09-01 Thread raphfrk
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax (Wed Aug 30 19:53:20 PDT 2006) Wrote: At 10:00 AM 8/30/2006, raphfrk at netscape.net wrote: I think another big issue is that something like this is actually annoying until you hit the scaling issues. In a forum with say 20 users, you don't actually need it. However,

Re: [EM] democratic community, the web, implicit/explicit instant proxy

2006-09-01 Thread raphfrk
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wikis can handle this easily, leaving a record of who edited the file for each edit, so we can confirm, if needed, that it was the member who added his or her record and designated the proxy, and it was the proxy who accepted. Someone would still have root access for

Re: [EM] democratic community, the web, implicit/explicit instant proxy

2006-08-30 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:00 AM 8/30/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think another big issue is that something like this is actually annoying until you hit the scaling issues. In a forum with say 20 users, you don't actually need it. However, by the time a forum hits the big time, the system is already in place.

Re: [EM] democratic community, the web, implicit/explicit instant proxy

2006-08-29 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi Brian, I think you're in the ballpark of understanding the problem I'm trying to solve. More below... On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 20:42 -0700, Brian Olson wrote: I'm still hoping kos will let me use my implementation of election methods in perl ( http://bolson.org/voting/vote_util/perl/ ) to