Online Governance: Six Case Studies

The software behind online community platforms encodes a governance model that represents a strikingly narrow set of governance possibilities focused on moderators and administrators. When online communities desire other forms of government, such as ones that take many members’ opinions into account or that distribute power in non-trivial ways, communities must resort to laborious manual effort.

By Howard Rheingold

hrheingold.medium.com/online-g

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Reccomend "manual community-council effort" with AI assistance that recommends and organizes community actions but is not given the power of action itself. I simply do not trust autonomous AI to make the correct decision that favours individual human dignity.

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