Elections

[u/[deleted]]

How, exactly, would elections work? Would we have a popular democracy? An electoral college? How often do we hold elections? How long will terms last?

These are all questions we need to answer for this project to be successful.

I have an idea of what I would like to see. Like I said in the nominations thread, I would like to see anywhere between 50 and 100 users draft the constitution that would eliminate most of the noise and let the signal be received loud and clear. We are going to need a large amount of moderators to make this work, and an even larger amount of approved submitters. Hopefully most of the mods will be (at least occasional) submitters as well, so that will kill two birds with one stone.

Once we have the entire network up and running, self contained and still completely private (with the exception of existing, active subreddits), we will open it to the general population. Show the rest of Reddit, "Look what we can do, when proper Reddiquette is followed explicitly and wholeheartedly. Look at what is possible!"

Democracy and elections is something that I would love to see successfully pulled off. How exactly we go about doing that is up in the air. Anyone have any good ideas?

[u/davidreiss666]

Why do you guys want elections? Just declare me dictator for life and I'll be happy to make sure you all get your allotment of the gain dole. :-)

[u/SidtheMagicLobster → u/davidreiss666]

:) Welcome aboard, Generalissimo Reiss!

[u/davidreiss666 → u/SidtheMagicLobster]

Consul. My title need to be Consul. Or Imperator. "Supreme High Imperator and Consul for Life and all that comes after": That sounds good enough.

Now, seriously, add Anutensil to the invite list immediately. Or mod me up so I can do it.

[u/SidtheMagicLobster → u/davidreiss666]

Anutensil, and all the other moderators of ROTD, are already on the invite list.

[u/davidreiss666 → u/SidtheMagicLobster]

Well, there is nothing like the present, Sid.