Here is the basic concept. We use direct democracy a la california ballot initiatives. That is anything of any significance is put to a public vote.
Now you would say that on first viewing this makes things worse as we have obvious non-experts making decisions in various areas. This is where the concept of delegated voting comes in.
I can delegate my vote on any area to someone else. If I vote on a topic my vote is counted if I do not bother to vote and I have delegated votes on that topic to someone else then my vote is added to their tally.
Some examples:
- My mother runs a recruitment firm and recently did her PHD in industrial psychoology on unemployment. I trust her judgement in this area therefore any votes on employment she can cast mine along with hers.
- My friend Chris knows a lot about markets and I think has a good balance between social justice and economic growth. I would delegate my economy votes to hiom in most instances. I don't trust him as much as I trust my mother though so in some key insances I may decide to vote myself.
- If friends decided to delegate their votes to me on certain areas where I feel confident (community, education, religion) I would be honored to vote on their behalf.
I think something like this could work for wikipedia. If you are a trusted member of the community you can give your votes for deletion in an area to a certain trusted person.
REmembr you can alwats still vote yourself and you can always move your vote from one person if you feel they no longer adequately rtepresent you.
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Here is the basic concept. We use direct democracy a la california ballot initiatives. That is anything of any significance is put to a public vote.
Now you would say that on first viewing this makes things worse as we have obvious non-experts making decisions in various areas. This is where the concept of delegated voting comes in.
I can delegate my vote on any area to someone else. If I vote on a topic my vote is counted if I do not bother to vote and I have delegated votes on that topic to someone else then my vote is added to their tally.
Some examples:
- My mother runs a recruitment firm and recently did her PHD in industrial psychoology on unemployment. I trust her judgement in this area therefore any votes on employment she can cast mine along with hers.
- My friend Chris knows a lot about markets and I think has a good balance between social justice and economic growth. I would delegate my economy votes to hiom in most instances. I don't trust him as much as I trust my mother though so in some key insances I may decide to vote myself.
- If friends decided to delegate their votes to me on certain areas where I feel confident (community, education, religion) I would be honored to vote on their behalf.
I think something like this could work for wikipedia. If you are a trusted member of the community you can give your votes for deletion in an area to a certain trusted person.
REmembr you can alwats still vote yourself and you can always move your vote from one person if you feel they no longer adequately rtepresent you.