Dear Carlos, feel free to write an article about this for our blog! or to coordinate with Sepp, who regularly looks at new projects for us, Michel On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 6:08 PM, ChaTo (Carlos Alberto Alejandro CASTILLO Ocaranza) <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

(I don't know if you'll find this useful or just blatant self-advertising -- it is probably a bit of both :-)

It is a very recent paper arguing for a variant of *liquid democracy*, a kind of delegative democracy introducing a dampening factor that reduces the weight of votes that travel through long delegation chains. We argue that it might be a good decision-making system for online social networks.

*Viscous Democracy for Social Networks - CACM Virtual Extension - June 2011* http://chato.cl/blog/en/2011/05/viscous_democracy_for_social_networks.html

The link above includes a summary as well as links to the (paywall'd) article in CACM, and the authors' copy (free as in beer).

Cheers,

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