Look at this board. Sometimes there are no pinned threads and it is a free for all as to whose threads get attention. This would be either pure democracy or anarchy depending on how you see the world.

Then at times there is just one pinned thread. This would be similar to a monarchy.

Then often there are multiple pinned threads by multiple mods. This might be seen as communist.

As far as the "citizens" go, to get attention, some threads have these cute little avatars next to them and others don´t. If you scan the board, you will see that about half have them and half don´t - so it turns out that there is no real advantage to having one or not - the free market at work.

Also, the same can be said for threads in ALL CAPS, those with SoMe CAPs, and others with no caps. This represents the dominating people, people with balance or ability to see both sides, and those who are more cerebral or less dominating.

And then we have the AC´s vs. the registered members and the other users...

everyone vying for attention to spread their ideas...

Same as different types of solar systems and galaxies - the diversity exists as that is the best way for that structure to survive.

kind of funny.