Democracy sucks. Because the majority is always wrong. If America were a true democracy, Justin Bieber would be president.

After all, more people tune into him than they do for the current president, or the news.

So when designing the Inn’s interactions, it’s important to have ways to make sure everyone does NOT have equal power or privilege.

There has to be a competition. A natural selection for the fittest to win. Any other non-organic or artificial method will produce artificial biases, like bailouts propping up a phony economy that ought to fail.

The Inn’s newly installed natural selection mechanism is the 30-day Leaderboard. Each Room will have a Leaderboard. Members climb the leaderboard by the number of positive responses they receive for their Stories. Not views. Responses. 

And members at the top of the leaderboard earn privileges to make changes in a Room.

It’s kind of a nifty, happy by-product I didn’t forsee when designing the leaderboard. If  there are no leaders, the Room is a democracy where anyone can rule. When leaders emerge, the leaders have authority for as long as they can remain in power. And the power comes from “votes” cast by fellow members.

Amanda Palmer said, “We can only connect the dots that we collect.” And that’s why we should never strive to be perfect, because we can never have all the dots to start. Instead, we just have to get moving.

“Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up,too.” – Isabel Allende