So this is a half formed idea that might be horrible, I thought I’d throw it out there for critique.
- We have a problem on Kbin.social and probably other instances of under staffed moderation & admin teams.
- Some large magazines have a single moderator
- This will soon lead to *bad-shit appearing here
- We will likely get de-federated at some point
A random selection of peers is good enough for juries. So how about we apply it here?
Every ~100th new user is made a site wide Admin (cannot delete only unpublish content, it remains visible in the backend to other mods)
Every ~100th new Magazine subscriber is similarly made a mod of that space.
A few would go powertripping, many would be inactive, but I think it might build the mod/admin team in a reasonable way.
We have to build the processes for powertripping/inactive admins anyway, so in a sense it’s not extra work.
You’d build in some randomness, so the system was harder to game, it wouldn’t literally be the 100th person. It might be the 80th, or 110th, but averaging out at ~100
>new user is made admin/mod
I wouldn’t like this. People who are admins/mods should be those who care most about the community and have a vested interest in making sure it’s good. If you give that to some random anon who happens to sign up for 2 seconds that can easily lead to the site being trashed.
I had a discord server where I gave mod perms to someone without careful checking. woke up in the morning to find every user banned, every post/channel deleted, and the server dead. prior to that it was thriving.