Editing Forum reference mechanisms (section)

== Forking and merging DAOs ==
The way to create hard forks and mergers (i.e., divergence and convergence, i.e., [https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fhumd.2021.641731/full dissensus] and consensus) in DGF would be through Forum post reference mechanisms and the Validation Pool. 

Say person1 creates a new type of REP, call it nREP, by sending a fee to the Validation pool associated with his nPost without referencing any existing post with REP. Now person1 could have been a member of an old 1REP DAO supposing they owned some 1REP. That means person1 made a hard fork from 1DAO to nDAO. That's divergence. That's dissensus.

Then when another person with old REP1 cites nPost with 1REP, that means she gives some 1REP to nPost. That means nPost is re-admitted to 1DAO. That's consensus. That's convergence.


Alternatively, there is another type of divergence that happens naturally in the function of DGF, which is simply referencing different posts. When you reference one chain, but not another, then you are strengthening a subset of the DAO and not the complement of that subset. So you are creating divergences just by moving forward in time.