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America is a representative democracy and a consitutional republic combined. ._.

Taken from Wiki: For example, "the United States relies on representative democracy, but [its] system of government is much more complex than that. [It is] not a simple representative democracy, but a constitutional republic in which majority rule is tempered by minority rights protected by law."

We elect most of our officials, however, there is a few officials that are hand picked (like the cabinet, judges, etc.) We elect officials to represent us. So yes, in that reguard of electing higher ups that nominate others to certain positions we are trusting them to vote in our favor.

And communism isn't a form of government. It's a economy policy. Dictatorship coupled with communism usually makes a huge mess.

That's pretty much summarised it Ninjaking. Everything there, is a must.

I think flexibility is fairly important. Let the users steer where the site goes, it will expand quicker that way, and users will be happier for it.
Lol, but I don't think taking equality to extreme's is a good idea. After all, you don't want users trying to suggest they can edit the code for the site.
Maybe meeting on equal ground with users would be a better way of putting it than equality?

: P I don't know, I think the first concrete rule should be flexibility, which is fairly ironic when you think about it. But I'm not at all opposed to fairly general values that promote good things. But we should steer away from creating rules that could be used against us at some point, and we'd have to break our own set of morals to resolve the issue, like what I just said about equality. I don't know about you, but I want the power to ban users for annoying me. I also want them to have the power to go to someone else and get unbanned if I really have banned them unfairly.

What you got there is pretty good, as we go we can elaborate and specify rules regarding whatever needs a rule. Maybe a method for choosing rules might be in order, and eliminating rules could follow the same procedure?

Justice... I like that word, it should fit in somewhere.

It is true that being flexible is intelligent, but I think it's more that Justice covers equality, but I don't think everyone's going to be equal, no matter what anyone does : P

Yeah, but equality is overrated. Would you really want to be equal to a small child, have the same rights, and the same restrictions? I don't think so, because you have different needs physically and mentally.

But I like the idea of giving them the impression that they're all equal :/ but how to word it do it wouldn't be an outright lie...

Banning because they annoy you? That's unfair in itself, you have to have a good reason to ban someone.

Rule are there always as boundaries, to stop us doing things, and to prevent the site turning into something none of us want.

Equality? There will be two seperate groups.


Admin and None - Admin.

Devs, and Users if you will. There will be no preferential treatment for different groups of users, regardless if they donate or not.

That is the equality we have, and it's going in the constitution.

I'm not planning on making something big out of something small. Rather I am trying to make sure everyone gets the same level of treatment.

...explain in what context you're using the word Synergy.