I've had more problems with skype and google hangouts than with tinychat (which is still being used for the lesswrong studyroom IIRC). I'd be in favor of having semi-regular virtual meetups.
If I were you I'd skip the democracy and simply announce a time and set of topics, like with the real life meetups.
Tinychat has the aggravating property of it being impossible to copy text from it. Which is annoying if something particularly witty/useful is said.
I would like to consolidate LW members in a new way. I believe we can organize an on-line gathering in some form, for example as a set of chat rooms to discuss different topics in the real time. This event can be announced in advance to help everyone to arrange plans. I hope the discussion can be more intense and productive than in chats that open for prolonged periods of time. And comparing to the lesswrong.com this event should give some feeling of a real conversation, which I can not get while posting articles and comments here.
If you have any additions, ideas and proposals please let me know.