Liquid Democracy, as originally conceived back in 2003 is not Delegative Democracy, see http://uniteddiversity.coop/2013/07/19/liquid-democracy-is-not-delegative-democracy/

Also, if you look at actually what happened with the German Pirate Party and their use of Liquid Feedback (which makes who you delegate your vote to public, another big mistake imho), all see that basically everyone pretty much everyone delegated their vote to the same person, and because everyone could see that was what everyone else had done people stopped bothering to vote because there was no point because the person everyone had delegated their votes to basically ended up with all the power. It ended up like Celebrity Culture on Steroids and actually reinforced many of the problems of so-called representative democracy (which is neither representative nor democratic), rather than being a nice half-way house between direct and representative models.

Had Liquid Feedback actually implemented what Sayke described back in 2003 this likely would not have happened. I hope you do not repeat the same mistakes, as that would be a might shame. It’d be great for someone to actually implement the original idea (although admittedly a well-implemented open version of delegative democracy — i.e per subject and anonymous — would still be a nice step in the right directions, I guess. But to my mind it still wouldn’t be Liquid Democracy).

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