Community Pact
Updated 2026-08-10
INTRODUCTION
English translation pending.
CORE DEFINITION
A covenant the villagers made voluntarily, supervising one another and managing themselves, in the open logic of decentralized autonomy, since imperial power did not reach below the county seat. Where administration cannot reach, order is built through moral consensus and the pressure of public opinion. As a scaffold it is the community pact: in a community or user-generated platform, official review is too costly, so set a pact, delegate to moderators and key voices, and let the users govern and purify themselves.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
Reduce cognitive load
- Co-write the pact: let the members draft the very rules they will live under. - Make it visible: post the rewards and the penalties where everyone can read them. - Delegate the watch: hand enforcement over to moderators instead of the center.
Anchor fast decisions
A local covenant lets neighbors govern themselves and help one another, and consensus-based norms deliver low-cost community governance through mutual supervision, a soft law that polices itself without the center's hand.
MINIMUM ACTION
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- zh.wikipedia.orghttps://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%84%89%E7%B4%84verified
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