Purely democratic forum

FrozenDice · 03-08-2005, 00:42

I've been thinking of an idea whereas a forum is managed by the posters. Where polls would be used to create rules and if a rule was broken the rulebreaker would have a chance to defend themselves followed by a poll where members could vote.

There would be monthly admins with the power that was granted to them by the posters. That means that even if your the admin for that month you only get the powers individualy granted to you by the posters. Also the posters could rally against a bad "government" by being able to do such things as opening threads, creating forum sections, giving special titles, etc. by popular vote.

Alot of this would be work on the polls which would be used for the majority of this.

If not for anything else this idea might just be facinating from the human social interaction.

Hmmm. Maybe I should take sociology then I could just do this for a project.

EDIT: I guess I should have called it a "direct democracy" to distinguish(where is spellcheck?) it from a republic.

randomman · 03-08-2005, 09:23

hmmmm, great idea :P

FrozenDice · 03-08-2005, 18:04

But the question is how hard would it be to implement?

randomman · 06-08-2005, 11:25

not very hard at all, just make more polls and give mods less power, simple

rustypaulin · 06-08-2005, 11:55

i think its a good idea, but would it be popular enough to work, because with only10 or so people it couldn't work

randomman · 06-08-2005, 14:48

but with 525 it'll be fine, give the mods more time to correct my tpyos

FrozenDice · 06-08-2005, 16:36

If someone makes this send me a link. As of right now I have almsot no knowledge of changing stuff in forums, as I've never really hacked up any of their scripts.

randomman · 06-08-2005, 19:02

this doesnt need a hack its just a way of running a forum

03-08-2005, 00:42	#1 (permalink)
FrozenDice Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 389 iTrader: 0 / 0%	Purely democratic forum I've been thinking of an idea whereas a forum is managed by the posters. Where polls would be used to create rules and if a rule was broken the rulebreaker would have a chance to defend themselves followed by a poll where members could vote. There would be monthly admins with the power that was granted to them by the posters. That means that even if your the admin for that month you only get the powers individualy granted to you by the posters. Also the posters could rally against a bad "government" by being able to do such things as opening threads, creating forum sections, giving special titles, etc. by popular vote. Alot of this would be work on the polls which would be used for the majority of this. If not for anything else this idea might just be facinating from the human social interaction. Hmmm. Maybe I should take sociology then I could just do this for a project. EDIT: I guess I should have called it a "direct democracy" to distinguish(where is spellcheck?) it from a republic. Last edited by FrozenDice; 03-08-2005 at 00:51.

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03-08-2005, 18:04	#3 (permalink)
FrozenDice Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 389 iTrader: 0 / 0%	But the question is how hard would it be to implement?

06-08-2005, 11:55	#5 (permalink)
rustypaulin Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 350 iTrader: 0 / 0%	i think its a good idea, but would it be popular enough to work, because with only10 or so people it couldn't work

06-08-2005, 16:36	#7 (permalink)
FrozenDice Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 389 iTrader: 0 / 0%	If someone makes this send me a link. As of right now I have almsot no knowledge of changing stuff in forums, as I've never really hacked up any of their scripts.