Italian citizens residing in Italy, and those residing abroad, are the second largest community currently present in the DirectDemocracyS system.
If in one year our overall users increased by 100%, we practically doubled, and Italian users tripled.
A very clear and rapid growth, which we want to celebrate.
The first presentation video, featuring the best information to get to know us, was made by our Italian users, and will be used as a template for all other languages for the first time in our history. This is a great recognition not only of the numbers, but of the quality of the long, hard work by almost all our users.
We've also published three world-first articles, revealing some very important information and offering helpful advice should you decide to join us, or if you already have, should you decide to work seriously and concretely with us, rather than simply remaining as spectators, but welcome ones.
It had already happened once a few months ago, when we Italians published, in an authorized manner, a world premiere, our voting rules, valid for our entire system. Even though it was a nearly final draft, to be validated by a vote of our truly and completely shared leadership, it made these important fundamental voting rules known to anyone who was interested. Knowing how we decide things is fundamental, and very important, to understanding that we are truly free, and authentically democratic. Here are our voting rules:
The final version has already been voted on and approved, and contains some additional details. It does not overturn, but rather integrates and improves, the rule published by our Italian groups.
The three world-first posts, celebrating our Italian weekend with its many activities, cover many fundamental rules, detailed methodologies, precise instructions, and impeccable motivations.
The first one talks about the rules for users and groups, and contains many important details to understand some very useful details, both for those who want to join us and for those who are already with us:
https://www.directdemocracys.org///directdemocracys.org/utility/blog/regole-generali-utenti-e-gruppi
We recommend that you read it like everyone else, with an open mind, comprehensively, and without hasty judgments, placing it within the general context of our rules.
The second presents some important rules, which will help you understand our uniqueness and the impossibility of all other systems copying us. It's titled: Everyone Follows All the Rules, and it will change your mind if you think we're obsessed with control, security, order, and discipline. These are precisely the things all other systems lack, and what makes them all fail, unjust, unequal, and unsafe. Read it and think about it:
The third post we invite you to study concerns some of the reasons why we work only and exclusively (with very few authorized exceptions) on our platforms. It explains many things you surely didn't know about us, what we're actually doing, how we're doing it, and with what objectives. It's titled: We work only on our platforms, and you can find it at this link:
In general, on our blog, fully translated into our beautiful Italian, you can find a wealth of other information, and recently even some video and audio files, for those who don't have the patience or the ability to read, and want to listen to our information, seeing what we're all creating together.
Simply click the small triangle inside our video player window to listen to and view the content. To stop playback, simply click the two vertical lines, which almost everyone has always used. A helpful tip: never open two players simultaneously, as you'll have two audio tracks overlapping, making it impossible to understand anything. It's similar to how those who use our translation engine, or set up a second automatic translation engine simultaneously in various browsers or applications, will end up with the second engine translating the already translated text, with terrible results. Use only ours, which, we remind you, translates all the English parts into every language and dialect in the world, but, like all other automatic translators, doesn't translate the Italian parts into Italian, but often slightly modifies the text. Therefore, for the Italian parts, don't use the translation engine, and if it's set to translate everything, disable it for a more faithful understanding of the original.
The official link for our blog, with all updated posts in Italian, is only this one:
https://www.directdemocracys.org///directdemocracys.org/utility/blog/categories/italiano
To play the video or audio player, simply click on the triangle in each window. To read the content and view the individual audio or video player, click on the title of each post in the list that appears as you scroll down the web page. You can listen to, view, or read its content.
At this point many will tell us: how banal, celebrating the simple fact of being the second largest community in the DirectDemocracyS system.
And some will ask: what is the first community, the most present in our system?
The largest community is that of US citizens, which, however, is made up not only of Native Americans or US citizens, but also of many US citizens with dual, triple, and sometimes quadruple citizenship. So they are a large but very diverse community.
To explain our happiness, and our Italian weekend, you only need to have studied one or two years of primary school: the United States has a population of approximately 347 million, about six times that of Italy, which has approximately 59.1 million inhabitants. US citizens are approximately twice as numerous as Italians in DirectDemocracyS, which, when compared to the real population, shows that we are more numerous, in percentage terms, than US citizens. It's not just numbers and percentages, but also a more massive and widespread presence, at the national, local, territorial, geographic, administrative, and electoral levels, which means that we will perhaps be the first to begin participating with our winning candidates in our future closed online primaries, in real elections.
We're obviously proud of these results, which is why, for several consecutive weekends, we'll be celebrating in various ways: first with our official members and registered users, with verified and guaranteed identities, then with our lower-level users, and subsequently with the many who follow and support us externally.
However, we want to remind everyone of the difference between our rules and our recommendations, both for those within and outside our system and platforms. Our rules are binding and uncompromising, and must always be respected by everyone. Meanwhile, sentences beginning with "we recommend…" are helpful suggestions that will be very useful to you, and which you should follow, while remaining completely free to do as you please.
We've always recommended joining us as soon as possible, after thoroughly informing ourselves. This is because early adopters enjoy numerous initial benefits and advantages, which are difficult to match for those who join our immense family later. And as you can see, in the summer of 2022, we gave you some excellent advice, which has proven extremely useful and, in many cases, crucial for many of our users.
We've always recommended joining us, choosing the highest level of membership from the very beginning, compared to all those available. Certainly not to make more money with annual fees, because we use almost all the money we earn in the ways and percentages you all know, and no individual or group of people gets rich from annual fees, donations, advertising contracts, and any business deals (except those who invest with us) or other activities. While they cost a few euros more per year, the higher-level memberships, acquired immediately, practically pay for themselves, because the services and potential offered have an overall value far greater than the actual cost. In short, you'll receive much more than you give us.
We're happy to see that our recommendations have been understood, and almost all of them require the higher user types from the outset, forcing us, however, to change, improve, and make certain of our fundamental rules more secure.
Under a major bill, we're about to vote on new membership rules, which will soon require anyone joining us to start with a free membership level, and perhaps a lower membership level, or at most two more, each lower.
What will actually change: to move from a free user level to a lower one (but one category higher), simply paying won't be enough; you'll need to have the necessary points (with concrete, documented activities, excellent results, and impeccable behavior). You'll have to pay in advance, as always, and when you start using the new user level, you'll need to pay when your previous level expires, or, when you're officially designated, based on detailed implementation rules.
With this change, each promotion to the next user category will be permitted only on the basis of merit, and with a contribution, not just financial, to our system's activities. The points earned will be decisive, and the number of points required to advance to the next level or category will continually increase, and we will become increasingly demanding.
But that's not all. It will also take time (from 3, 6, 9 months up to a year, or even longer, regardless of the points accumulated, with some justified exceptions) to move from one user category to the next or higher, but also to be able to vote in our truly and completely shared leadership, or to become our official members, becoming collective owners of our entire system.
Our groups have calculated that these rules will certainly obtain the necessary votes to enter the improvement, and that they will almost certainly be implemented by January 1, 2026.
To make this message visible to everyone in all languages, it will be published on our website, also translated into English. Many may not be interested and will miss the opportunity to immediately gain a higher level of user experience.
The new rules are part of security measures to prevent any possible use of our system in ethically and morally incorrect ways.
It stands to reason that with our numbers doubling in just one year and continuing to grow, we must become increasingly selective and attentive, continuing to welcome those who deserve it, in the best possible way, and with all the support and concrete assistance they need.