A Guide For Designing Online Community Governance

Different classes of shares can be weighted differently. For instance, at Facebook, more than half of the voting shares are controlled by CEO Mark Zuckerberg. This is possible because he owns special Class B shares that have 10 times the voting rights of regular Class A shares. This means that the CEO of Facebook is functionally not accountable to ... See more

Some decisions affect particular stakeholders more than others. Some stakeholder groups may not want to be responsible for certain decisions. In the design of elegant decision making structures, it is important, through codesign, to identify which decisions particular stakeholder groups should be a part of...  As an example, musicians on a col... See more