[EM] Proportional hierarchy

[Abd ul-Rahman Lomax]

At 09:55 PM 8/23/2006, Rob Lanphier wrote:

>My solution would be to come up with a hierarchical filtering
>mechanism, where all users are placed (via election method described
>below) in small groups of 6-10 people.  The leaders of each of these
>groups would themselves be members of small groups, up to the top of
>the hierarchy. Members of each group see all posts by all other
>members.  Either the leader or a majority of the group can then vote
>to promote items to a higher tier.

Congratulations, Rob. You have now reached the point in thinking 
about this problem that I was at about twenty years ago. I don't 
think you need to take twenty years to go further. :-)

(Well, you have gone into details that I didn't consider, perhaps 
because I came to a conclusion that voting was entirely unnecessary 
except in a polling sense, voting need not have the ability to 
control anything at all. But that takes going into the Free 
Association concept, which is about as thoroughly libertarian as one 
could imagine.

Delegable Proxy I see as a communication method, an essential aspect 
of which is how it filters information. You have described, more or 
less, with slightly different numbers, a DP network, including a bit 
of how it would communicate. I've assumed that proxies would learn to 
run a mailing list for their clients, just as you have described.