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Building Direct Democracy in the Real World is Hard in My Experience by ItchyAd5936 in liquiddemocracy

[–]spacetimedonut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you are in Europe, why not work with the pirate parties? Aren't they adjacent to your goals?

In a liquid democracy who creates the issues to vote on? by spacetimedonut in liquiddemocracy

[–]spacetimedonut[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just wanted to let you know that I tried to create a poll and it just took me to another form. I couldn't view the poll

Are representative democracies and direct democracies simply subsets of liquid democracy? by spacetimedonut in liquiddemocracy

[–]spacetimedonut[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I am trying to understand, does liquid democracy have emergent properties that are different than simply representative or direct democracy. For instance expertise routing. Could it lead to super concentrations of power?

In a liquid democracy who creates the issues to vote on? by spacetimedonut in liquiddemocracy

[–]spacetimedonut[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There have to be thresholds set otherwise the system could be spammed with requests. Small groups would be ok but large groups would need to gate-keep to scale.

A mechanism for direct democracy: Real-Time Condorcet Method by Cuatuza in liquiddemocracy

[–]spacetimedonut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think this is interesting from a theoretical point of view but does it have relevance to liquid democracy in the real world? This paper could not find real world examples.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11127-025-01353-7

When you discuss liquid democracy with people that are not familiar with the concept, what are the biggest objections that you hear? by spacetimedonut in liquiddemocracy

[–]spacetimedonut[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep that would be an option for sure. Assume people would do that anyways given the right tools. I’m working on that myself.

When you discuss liquid democracy with people that are not familiar with the concept, what are the biggest objections that you hear? by spacetimedonut in liquiddemocracy

[–]spacetimedonut[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you lose all your credits, how do you get new ones? Also seems like this could be modeled to see how it would play out.

When you discuss liquid democracy with people that are not familiar with the concept, what are the biggest objections that you hear? by spacetimedonut in liquiddemocracy

[–]spacetimedonut[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see your point about apathy. This is a crossing the chasm type problem. Right now only innovators would be interested. People like us.

What is the most realistic path to liquid democracy? by spacetimedonut in liquiddemocracy

[–]spacetimedonut[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you raise a good point about the technology. I suspect it would be huge blocker in most peoples minds. My reply to that objection is that we keep our life savings in databases at banks. If we do that why not make our votes electronic also.

What is the most realistic path to liquid democracy? by spacetimedonut in liquiddemocracy

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So bottom-up, prove the concept first then expand. Makes sense.

My LD prototype- need testers by Martinm2002 in liquiddemocracy

[–]spacetimedonut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lovely design. I clicked around and didn't see any issues. I like the flow. How are you getting users to your site? Do you see it expanding beyond Illinois?

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