Quote Originally Posted by rong View Post
So what you're saying is, if not stopped from doing so, some dick always comes along and ruins it for everyone. That doesn't mean democracy doesn't work or is inherently broken, it means people can be idiots, most of us, fortunately, only for a small portion of out lives.
I don't think there is any difference between one dick and 51% dicks. Even if you extract the trolls from this experiment, I think the billboard still devolves into trivialities based on all the non-troll grievances people would have.

Why would we allow our most useless that much influence?
Well, this is already how our democracies work. Our governmental policies do not come from experts or any position of credibility. On any sort of issue that government makes policy, the vast majority of voters are these "most useless idiots" whose influence enacts terrible policy.

Also you described anarchy not democracy.
I think this is a common misconception. Anarchy, as a political system, has nothing to do with lack of rules, but with lack of a taxing rule-giver. Democracy is where the decider of rules are citizens of the system. You are on point if you say that in a democracy, the students would develop bodies to set rules on this billboard, but my point is that this is an inherent contradiction in democracy since the philosophical foundation of democracy is the will of the voter. The principles engaged by the desires of one voter or by a collection of 51% of voters are still the same.