I vote to keep Siftquisitions.

I look at this in two different ways. First, at the micro level, this is just an online community, and the worst punishment we can mete out is exile. There are rules of conduct that are pretty lax, and allow for a lot of antisocial behavior before people become willing to invoke a ban, even temporary ones. Most of the rules are designed to preserve the integrity of the site's main function as a video sifter, and with some mild attempts to protect the community that's formed around the site as a secondary concern.

At this level, the chief reason to be in favor of the formalized Siftquisitions is that we've grown big enough that it's just not fair to expect our admin to take personal responsibility for settling all disputes over the rules, especially when they're heavily colored by interpersonal interactions.

In short, we need to keep dag a happy camper, so he doesn't say "fuck it all" and shut the place down because it's all too much stress having some couple hundred 5 year-olds to discipline.

On a macro level, I hope most people would say that history tells us monarchy isn't a great system of government. It's possible for it to not be a disaster, but it can get out of control very quickly.

Democracy in this kind of raw form has some potential pitfalls too, but at least the responsibility or blame is shared by everyone equally. This is something I think many people fail to understand about our government in general -- just because you voted against the mob, it doesn't eliminate your culpability as a citizen.

Mostly though, I don't think it's fair to vote dag Emperor of the Sift, and try give up your own responsibility to make this place work.

You'll be able to vote in every Siftquisition, once, and post as many comments as you like to try to sway people to see things your way.

In the meantime, I think dag's got it right -- if he's elected Chancellor of the Sift, his first action should be to order everyone to heed the democratic system, or be sentenced to work the deadpool for 30 years.

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