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Some good thoughts here, for sure. I think some structure is needed, just as our bodies have cells which create organs which have different purposes, roles, responsibilities, etc. A governing body of leadership makes sense over a completely flat hierarchy which would be like a body made up entirely of stomach cells instead of different cells (like brain cells, etc) performing different roles. Any 1 account, 1 vote approach can fail to a sybil attack. At least with communities, people are free to create their own competing community, though it hinders the network effect for that topic.

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Sybil attacks are possible in real world democratic institutions. I believe it's typically referred to as "Branch Stacking" in the political sphere.

The idea here is that Moderators can validate/identify Members however they please and the ProbationTime setting prevents a Moderator from stacking his community (a sybil attack) without giving the other Mods (and Members) time to counter the attempt.

It's not perfect but this implementation would be a relatively simple way of introducing a few checks and balances.