Editing Governance (section)

====Forum reference mechanisms====
''Main page: [[Forum reference mechanisms]]''

The Forum reference mechanisms allows DAO members to re-weight the Forum. This means new posts can give or take REP from older posts through a weighted reference. This allows DAO members to review previous actions that had previously been given a particular quantity of REP tokens, and either slash or augment the posts' holdings depending on whether they are later deemed less or more beneficial to the DAO than had originally been decided.

Forum revaluation is more deliberate and takes more time than arbitration with a judge – it requires the weighted-democratic consensus of the larger DAO. Forum revaluation changes the REP token holdings of posts in the [[Forum]] through leaching and donating references from new validated posts.   

With two basic reference functions, DAOs have complete control over the process of reweighting the Forum WDAG. The reference mechanisms are ''complete'', in the sense that those are the only functions you need to be able to revaluate/reweight the WDAG in any possible manner.