At 09:55 PM 8/23/2006, Rob Lanphier wrote: >My solution would be to come up with a hierarchical filtering >mechanism, where all users are placed (via election method described >below) in small groups of 6-10 people. The leaders of each of these >groups would themselves be members of small groups, up to the top of >the hierarchy. Members of each group see all posts by all other >members. Either the leader or a majority of the group can then vote >to promote items to a higher tier.
Congratulations, Rob. You have now reached the point in thinking about this problem that I was at about twenty years ago. I don't think you need to take twenty years to go further. :-) (Well, you have gone into details that I didn't consider, perhaps because I came to a conclusion that voting was entirely unnecessary except in a polling sense, voting need not have the ability to control anything at all. But that takes going into the Free Association concept, which is about as thoroughly libertarian as one could imagine. Delegable Proxy I see as a communication method, an essential aspect of which is how it filters information. You have described, more or less, with slightly different numbers, a DP network, including a bit of how it would communicate. I've assumed that proxies would learn to run a mailing list for their clients, just as you have described. ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
