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Re: Vendit post# 171

Friday, 05/11/2001 12:30:00 PM

Friday, May 11, 2001 12:30:00 PM

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In the case of SI you had at one time Bob being the single policeman acting to govern the entire SI community, a task that even Bob will likely admit was near impossible to do. I’m sure his workload was huge.

That's part of the issue that CoB addresses for me, but not all of it.

To continue with your government analogy, on SI I was the King rather than the Fed Government. It was, as I'd described it before publicly, a "benign dictatorship".

It's automatically assumed by nearly everyone on the planet that anybody in a role of dictatorship likes being in that role and jealously guards it.

Not the case. I filled that role because that was the model for the site (we hadn't thought of this model) and if I wanted to benefit the site, that was the role that was available. Arguably fine, since it was a benign dictatorship.

But I wasn't happy with it.

Revisit the 3D-world dictatorship analogy. Or even the old monarchies. I suspect the King's life wasn't all featherbeds and caviar. As the only legal authority in the land, he had to decide the outcome of every disagreement. One minute he's deciding the sentence for an accused murderer and the next he's deciding what to do about someone's sheep trampling someone else's flowers. And every morning, there's a long line of these cases waiting for his personal attention.

Yuck!

And the 2D version doesn't even get a featherbed and can't afford caviar. And the concubines *still* haven't shown up.

The iHub model is more like our own government except that the citizens don't get to vote. Someone *owns* this particular country and decides who's the president. But there are no immigration/emigration laws aside from the Terms of Use. The citizens vote with their citizenship.

In this model, I don't have to deal with sheep treading on flowers. I just handle the bigger things. Each township has people who deal with trampling tups.

I like this model not only because it should *dramatically* reduce my workload (eventually), but because I don't have to be the only person making every single judgment call.

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