This will be a badly edited rambling. Sorry.
About the title: When I first saw @dan's post Proof of Governance, I felt like it was another pretentious post that would go right over my head.
I was wrong. It was not pretentious.
During the last days, I had to think about it again.
I am not much wiser, but I am trying to create a Discord community and I need to find a way to operate a community-run bot, which can reward certain actions inside the community with content-unrelated rewards on Steem. Everybody should have a chance to get the vote. The more you do for the community, the higher the chance should be, however ... I guess it boils down to picking a form of government.
An early member to the server was @isnochys.
I do not know him well. Since he joined, he contributed a lot of half-baked ideas to my brainstorms.
One was a gem though, and I had dismissed it too quickly; I will take inspiration from the feudal system of Crusader Kings II.
As far as I am aware, there is no such thing in the crypto space yet, but @ned seems to have gone down a similar path, according to his latest comments ...
Introducing a guild-like structure did not end well on Steemit, but I am sure another attempt at totalitarian blockchain governance will succeed, eventually.
For the United Decentralized Community for Freedom Peace Prosperity Education Environment and Liberty this is already established. I call the shots.
I don't want to be around all the time though and will therefore try to delegate most of the power to vassals. I have to think about this a little longer, but I am sure I can design an easy way for a vassal to create dejure titles within their own realm, which would allow them to recruit their own vassals, form alliances or challenge a title.
The entry barrier for this might be a bit high and the project a bit too big, but this is just a rambling anyways.
The possibilities are huge. Roles on Discord are color coded. I could reserve a certain range for a vassal and let him pick a shade for his subjects.. Perhaps I should go as far as creating a topological map and dejure counties...
For those of you already on the server: I am working on a simple registration for now.
Don't worry, it will be ready soon.
It is funny how the first stake-based community I ever encountered is so well established already, while so many fundamental questions have yet to be answered and I am afraid that only a lot of competition will bring this discussion forward.
How random was that n^2 @ 40 votes ? Where did those numbers come from anyways ?
How pointless is superlinear ?
I don't even get the latest proposals.. Is that a cast system ? Isn't that exactly what @dan was describing for his new eos-based social media ?
These forms of governance are pretty limiting to begin with and not very creative to be honest. I feel like I have seen that before.
How is it with all these proposals, that they are all so obviously aimed at further establishing the individual proponents influence ? It is ridiculous.
Who wants to buy into an enterprise where all the claims have been filed ?
Who wants to play a cash game where the rules will be changed, when the wrong players are winning ?
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Perhaps I can find the time to finish the first service for UDCfFPPEEaL tomorrow.
Who knows; Maybe Feudalism is the perfect form of blockchain governance.
I will try to create a game around the bot's votes anyways. Why not go full grand strategy game ? It would be more honest and more entertaining.
I propose to abandon flags and replace flagwars with deathmatch duels.
Until we can get it on Steem, I could test it with UDCfFPPEEaL. In my normal sandbox games, I am a fair but strict ruler and rarely allow my subjects to duel ... But they are usually all descendants of my own dynasty anyways ... ( Crusader Kings is a great game, you should check it out )
For now, I am stuck with annoying problems, but I hope to be able to open at least the registration soon.