Dear friend, Rome nevertheless disappeared is obviously true, but consider how much the contemporary Law is based on the roman one ( for instance, 20 occurence of Roma in the previously linked page)

About "the one who leads".. i've never mentioned it; away from me the idea to reimplement the 'enlightened dictator'!!
In fact a mix of consideration and negative votes is more similar to a democratic method.

Might also be worth to explore the possibility of some kind of meritocracy instead: monks of level 15-19 could have the possibility to double vote (once a day?) a node, 20+ level monks maybe can triple vote (three times in a day?) a node.

Also to expose more information in the header of a post, like the level of the monk at the moment he or she posted, and peraphs the percentage of post with negative votes (-5 as triggering limit?) and the number of total reaped or obscured posts.. can guide monks or visitors to get right answers from our site. The spirit of the monastery is to help people in a kind way: misleading posts, highly inaccurate ones, empty of sense ones, personal harrasment.. are obviously against that spirit.
UPDATE: also XP / posts ratio can be exposed and will be usefull. ENDofUPDATE

Anyway no posts must be removed: as reaped ones, the new category of, say, 'greyed posts' must be reachable somehow. Even better will be to put such posts in a separate location unavailable to robot and spiders (it was possible inthe past, dunno if is still feasible).

Also we can explore the possibilty to grant some extra right to monks of 20+ level: we have 45~ monks of such level who logged in in the current year. If 3 or 5 of them mark a post to be 'greyed' it happens as for the reaped ones.

Obviosly all that things must be implemented: if for the moment no one has the time to do it (small or big is always a work) we can wait. But if the desire to change or add something is clear and diffused (we can also imagine a poll for this) must to be put in a todo list.

best regards, L*

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