The Bitcoin Lordship list, first revision
This thing was introduced four months ago, and at the time it was a wildly scandalous and utterly revolutionary idea : organise the space - all of the space, the entire world - not according to a "topic" but according to a lordship list. Not by "ideas", but by people. A republic not of "laws", but of men. You know, just like anything that ever worked has ever been organised in the entire history of humanityi to dateii. Quite revolutionary, in the reactionary sense of that term.
This revolutionarily reactionary idea worked quite well, and armed with experience I am now confident it will work even better in the coming years. Which is why putting in a little work maintaining it seems justified. So, here's the new list :
id
rater nick
rated nick
ratee total rating
created at (UTC)
34530
assbot
nanotube
781
2014-04-11 06:17:44
34506
assbot
mircea_popescu
183
2014-04-11 06:06:13
34505
assbot
kakobrekla
147
2014-04-11 06:05:47
34534
assbot
joecool
67
2014-04-11 16:52:08
34514
assbot
jurov
64
2014-04-11 06:09:14
36390
assbot
fluffypony
63
2014-08-13 01:10:49
34517
assbot
Apocalyptic
54
2014-04-11 06:09:32
34529
assbot
davout
53
2014-04-11 06:15:03
34509
assbot
thickasthieves
47
2014-04-11 06:06:42
34511
assbot
bingoboingo
46
2014-04-11 06:07:55
34520
assbot
Namworld
46
2014-04-11 06:10:31
34536
assbot
mod6
41
2014-04-11 16:53:11
34510
assbot
nubbins`
38
2014-04-11 06:07:05
34508
assbot
asciilifeform
35
2014-04-11 06:06:30
34507
assbot
ben_vulpes
31
2014-04-11 06:06:22
36389
assbot
dignork
31
2014-08-13 01:10:41
34515
assbot
mike_c
30
2014-04-11 06:09:20
36392
assbot
justusranvier
30
2014-08-13 01:11:02
36388
assbot
FabianB
23
2014-08-13 01:10:29
34516
assbot
thestringpuller
17
2014-04-11 06:09:27
34524
assbot
pete_dushenski
17
2014-04-11 06:11:31
34513
assbot
moiety
14
2014-04-11 06:09:02
34519
assbot
pankkake
13
2014-04-11 06:10:03
34527
assbot
artifexd
11
2014-04-11 06:12:03
34533
assbot
punkman
10
2014-04-11 16:51:40
34525
assbot
chetty
9
2014-04-11 06:11:38
36391
assbot
mthreat
8
2014-08-13 01:10:55
34528
assbot
dub
6
2014-04-11 06:14:35
34518
assbot
bounce
5
2014-04-11 06:09:42
34526
assbot
diametric
3
2014-04-11 06:11:56
In general, and for all time, one can get on that list, or off that list, through a process that's fuzzily defined on purposeiii and staunchly undemocratic. It's not necessarily unrepresentative, but emphatically no promise is made that it will represent in any particular manner (let alone "fairly" for any arbitrary definition of "fairly") any particular group.
This is not accidental or an oversight, but quite foundationally deliberate. The goal is not a spot for everyone under the sun, we're not socialists over here. The goal is quite contrary to that : making it impossible for the unworthy to ever see the sun again, and coming up with some sort of definition of "unworthy" that may be well applied. No matter who gets hurt and how badly, just as long as the thing sort-of manages to keep most of the shit buried it'll be so very much better than any possible alternative the bureaucratic Morlochiv of socialist statism can ever provide. So, so very much better.
For they less ideologically consumed and more practically minded : have intelligent things to say, you will eventually end up on the list. Not have intelligent things to say, you will eventually end up off the list. That's the whole of the law.
Finally, for they interested in doing a little bit of work : a nice graph of the WoT would be nice. Something like this except up to date and b-a centric.
———The most productive way to look at the history of the Roman Republic and subsequent Empire is in the following terms : "there was a set of benches somewhere, and people put a lot of attention into sorting the way they occupied them". That's all, the whole Republic : a very complicated game of pecking order played under some hills somewhere. Everything else flows from there, that was the prime motivator : not armies, not commissions, not money. All these mere means towards the actual goal of anyone involved, called "glory", but practically meaning... a better spot on the benches. That's it. [↩]With the unnotable, short lived exception of the Internet, or more specifically : of all the things that were tried once the Internet became infected with the September spawn that shouldn't have ever been allowed online in the first place. Those things that never worked. [↩]So it can't be gamed. Same story as with punishment, only the other direction. [↩]As asciilifeform points out, a Morloch is a Moloch worshiped by morlocks. [↩]
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