[P2P-F] "Viscous democracy": a voting system for social networks based on liquid democracy

[ChaTo (Carlos Alberto Alejandro CASTILLO Ocaranza)]

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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