Comment by jaenyf

So I think we could set up a system that would distribute laws or legislative amendments both across the entire population (horizontal axis) and according to current trends or severity (vertical axis).

This could lead to situations where certain minor and very localized changes would affect only a very limited number of citizens who have subscribed to them: those directly affected by these changes (for example, a village), even though all citizens of the country could access this information and contribute to it.

On the opposite, a very significant change (such as a revision of the Constitution at the national level) would require broader citizen participation and would likely necessitate a referendum mechanism.

I believe I’ve observed these two mechanisms at work on Stack Overflow:

- Their default system for sorting questions, tags, and categorization could be used to target a specific segment of the user base (while remaining open to all other users).

- They also have a global voting system that sends all users an invitation to vote (for example, to elect a Stack Overflow moderator). This could serve as inspiration for a simple and accessible referendum system.

What’s interesting about the ODD is that if citizens are dissatisfied with a feature (let’s say a poorly designed referendum process has been implemented), they can simply propose redesigning it themselves, and the system would adapt accordingly.

EDIT: That's also why I explicitly made the very 1st element of the very 1st article of the draft constitution as follows: "Because of human nature, ODD will face attempts at sabotage, power grabs, deception, manipulation, and subversion—whether through deception, trickery, or direct attack—and must therefore ensure its own security in order to guarantee the security of all citizens. However, no security mechanism can justify the implementation of opaque processes that escape the scrutiny of even a single citizen, even if they pertain to national security. Fundamentals proposed by ODD’s lie in its openness and are the guarantee of the security, the freedom, and the application of a direct democracy by and for citizens."

The intent is to exclude any "Rimmer-like" individual, whether it be me or any other person, from seizing any kind of power of any sort. As long as power is distributed, the citizens remain in control and, therefore, the democracy remains.

ODD should guarantee this; as a bootstrap process, democratic self-organization on GitHub (or any other Git-related platform, e.g., through its discussion system) should make important initial bootstrap processes emerge until a working ODD system is ready to be used instead.