I think it's because of the streaming lag. The stream is several seconds behind the chat and people are submitting commands based off of where the stream is, not where the game is.

A version that played the game on your local PC (with periodic save state syncs maybe) would probably be more robust (and quicker to play).

>Oddly enough, the aggregate vote is doing worse than the random vote

It's simply because aggregate makes the game so much easier that it makes the stream seem less interesting.

Progress is not inevitable with the original system, it's miraculous. With democracy it actually plays the game somewhat normally.

The voting interval made the game too slow to be enjoyable, so players rebelled by spamming the start button until the creator rolled back the change.

People were generally opposed because it felt like "cheating". I'm sort of on this side -- I think the "anarchy" experiment is pretty fun to watch, though I do think a "democracy" experiment would be interesting to run separately.

The stream can now vote between the two modes and it'll switch if one receives enough votes.