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hamstar / legislat0r

An open source system for crowdsourcing creation and analysis of legislature
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Pure democracy? #61

Open fierce-bad-squirrel opened 12 years ago

fierce-bad-squirrel commented 12 years ago

We're discussing allowing users to vote on what they feel are the best suggestions to alter bills. However, sometimes conflict may arise between what is legal and highly voted, or feasible and highly voted. We need some way to solve these conflicts without the remedy devolving to the tyranny of the majority if we want to be able to have workable bills come out of the site.

Should we have a mechanism in place where certain votes count more heavily than others in certain cases? Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but not all opinions are equal. Some opinions are more informed, some more biased, and some are based purely on instinct/emotion. Those with highly informed opinions need a way to ensure their voices are heard and given due consideration.

see also: #54

OLawD commented 12 years ago

I don't think votes should count more than others but I do think more highly regarded contributors who make edits should have their edits seen before edits that have the same amount of votes. So if you make an edit and you're highly regarded you automatically jump in front of a whole bunch of people who also just made edits but not above those already with some support. On May 2, 2012 2:11 PM, "fierce-bad-squirrel" < reply@reply.github.com> wrote:

We're discussing allowing users to vote on what they feel are the best suggestions to alter bills. However, sometimes conflict may arise between what is legal and highly voted, or feasible and highly voted. We need some way to solve these conflicts without the remedy devolving to the tyranny of the majority if we want to be able to have workable bills come out of the site.

Should we have a mechanism in place where certain votes count more heavily than others in certain cases? Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but not all opinions are equal. Some opinions are more informed, some more biased, and some are based purely on instinct/emotion. Those with highly informed opinions need a way to ensure their voices are heard and given due consideration.

see also: #54

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/hamstar/legislat0r/issues/61

fierce-bad-squirrel commented 12 years ago

That would be a good implementation of the basic concept.