Liberum Consilium: a system design for moderated deliberation [pdf]
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Prior to voting, voters must communicate their intent
to participate with a Registration Authority (RA).
Nowhere is it discussed what exactly is the RA, who is part of it etc. Moderators are supposedly "randomly" chosen and given a random amount of time to do their job, but Reputation influences moderator selection. Relatively high
positive reputation increases the odds of selection while
negative reputation decreases it. This positive contributor
bias aims to contain the influence of special interest groups.
That's not random and leaves space to game the system. I think giving more moderating time to higher rep would be better than choosing moderators from a small pool of users.Unfortunately I saw nothing about "Liquid Democracy" delegations? With pure direct votes only, participation will suffer because voting often on many matters is inconvenient to most people.
The "tagging" of proposals is nice. However, who define the "tag hierarchy"? Is it even necessary to have such a hieararchy, I don't think so.
Otherwise I like it.