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