Luckily we don't need any branches of government, because solutions can be implemented permissionlessly.
While I continue to deny your analogies to the blockchain:
- Digital violence is not violence.
- Flagging distributes money to everyone on the platform.
- Steem is not comparable to traditional government.
I see that your solutions remain spot on.
I was actually just talking about this issue to @canadian-coconut on discord. It wouldn't be that hard to create a model that renders users immune to flags.
- Sell your vote
- Add proceeds to tip jar.
- Tip liquid Steem rather than upvotes so they can't be flagged.
Unfortunately, a free market for vote selling doesn't exist yet.
I'm also working on a reputation system that will allow users to give permissions to other users based on the level of trust that they've chosen to give them. This is in line if the whole exclusion-rather-than-fighting principal.
In essence, we can implement solutions here without asking permission, and they can pass the tests of pacifism that you so clearly value quite highly. You know, I'm trying to get there, but it's hard to put the tools weapons back in the box.