Update '01. Online Governance'

01.-Online-Governance.md

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 # Distilled, Grassroots, Radical Governance
 ## is a good fit for the fediverse
 
-This working practice comes from 30 years of building from [The Tyranny of Structurelessness](03.-The-Tyranny-of-Stucturelessness).
+This working practice comes from 30 years of on the ground grassroots building from [The Tyranny of Structurelessness](03.-The-Tyranny-of-Stucturelessness).
 
 Social change groups have worked in this way to challenge and change power structures on the ground. Some examples of social change groups: from squats, protest camps and climate camps to indymedia, Reclaim the Streets and more recently to XR and even Occupy.<br/>
 Rainbow Gatherings are a working example of this grassroots governance. They have been going for 50 years and the core is still based on the founding traditions which came from the Vietnam War - not the hippy dippy origins that people talk about. 
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ This is clearly the voice of the #fediverse, as they are the people running it.
 
 ### 2. Users
 The Stakeholders are then balanced dynamically by the same number of Users who are interested in the process.<br/>
-They are chosen by [lottery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition) from the registered accounts.<br/>
+They are chosen by [Sortition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition) from the registered accounts.<br/>
 You have a choice whether or not to register your account as a possible Member of the Body. 
 
 ### 3. The Affiliate Stakeholders
@@ -74,20 +74,19 @@ Basic security and checks to see:
 - if an Instance still exists and is real
 - if a Member account is actively posting or a puppet
 
-All of this can be done with Member flagging, some automated, others by people. Flagged accounts and posts get passed to the “Security Group”. It’s up to the Groups to influence an outcome, and as a last resort “recall” an account - being a lottery, if one goes, a new one is chosen again by lottery.
+All of this can be done with Member flagging, some automated, others by people. Flagged accounts and posts get passed to the “Security Group”. It’s up to the Groups to influence an outcome, and as a last resort “recall” an account - sortition, if one goes, a new one is chosen again by sortition.
 
 We mediate the problem of sock-puppets and spammers by basic checks such as:
 - Was the account created within the last year?
 - Are there active postings over this period?
-    - **[Definition required: "active"]**
 - The normal ActivityPub moderation tools
 
-Upon registration, you are automatically entered into the lottery to determine working Roles within the governance via [Sortition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition). There is a box you can untick if you do _NOT_ want to take an active working role (this is a valid use-case for opt-out, and important here).
+Upon registration, you are automatically entered into the sortition to determine working Roles within the governance via [Sortition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition). There is a box you can untick if you do _NOT_ want to take an active working role (this is a valid use-case for opt-out, and important here).
 
-Only people who want to be part of the Governing Body AND play an active role are enrolled in the lottery.<br/>
+Only people who want to be part of the Governing Body AND play an active role are enrolled in the sortition.<br/>
 Users are just user accounts, Stakeholders are "moderators", Voices are admins, the code is the facilitator of management.
 
-Every time a position opens the lottery picks a Stakeholder to fill it. If it is you and you would like to do the job – get to it.<br/>
+Every time a position opens the sortition picks a Stakeholder to fill it. If it is you and you would like to do the job – get to it.<br/>
 If you do not want the job then resign and the lottery will pick a new person.
 
     
@@ -105,7 +104,7 @@ For easier decision making, this number is likely too high, so we can put a limi
 It’s up to the "Admin Group" to choose the right number to build a functional working community. If you don’t have enough good people to fill roles, open the pool up; if there is too much discussion, reduce the pool size.<br/>
 It is essential to try different approaches.
 
-A 3-way split of Stakeholders: instances/users/affiliates (builders & supporters). If the Affiliate Group becomes larger than the number of instances, they would be be chosen by lottery just like the others.
+A 3-way split of Stakeholders: instances/users/affiliates (builders & supporters). If the Affiliate Group becomes larger than the number of instances, they would be be chosen by sortition just like the others.
 **[Ambiguous: "Stakeholder" is defined at the top as one per instance, but here is being used to define all "stakeholders".]**