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Clarify log-base voting curve

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@ -88,11 +88,13 @@ But voting weight should not be linear by default. Linear voting turns patronage
The inherited rule family is log-power voting:
```text
voting_weight = 1 + log_base(1 + effective_points)
voting_weight = 1 + log_base(max(1, effective_points))
```
The leading `1` is not decoration. If voting share is only normalized pure logarithms, the log base mostly cancels out. With a baseline voting unit, the base becomes a real political parameter: it decides how fast accumulated points pull someone away from ordinary member weight.
Example: with base `10`, one million effective points becomes `7` votes, while ten thousand effective points becomes `5` votes. That is still hierarchy. It is just a hierarchy whose slope has been dragged out into public where people can argue with it.
Base `2` says accumulated value should matter sharply. Base `10` says the hierarchy should be much flatter. Both are defensible. Neither should be smuggled in by a developer because the constant looked tidy.
The log base is something the platform negotiates consensus on:
@ -250,13 +252,13 @@ effective_points =
+ global_contribution_points * 0.10
+ global_patron_points * 0.05
voting_weight = 1 + log2(1 + effective_points)
voting_weight = 1 + log2(max(1, effective_points))
```
Another project might choose a flatter platform consensus curve:
```text
voting_weight = 1 + log10(1 + effective_points)
voting_weight = 1 + log10(max(1, effective_points))
```
Base `10` is the high end I can currently stomach without turning contribution into decorative confetti. A deployment that wants something flatter than that should have to say so in public and win the argument.