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Exactly, I think we should set straight an implicit/informal manifesto as a community to keep ourselves open and civilized as far as possible and shun on any powertrip-like behavior
Implementing a system wherein users are able to hold mods in check would be a huge start. That's one of the major problems with reddit. The community is forced to be accountable to the mods, but the mods aren't accountable to the community.
A group of renegade mods can worm their way into a community, completely blow it up or change it totally, driving out or marginalizing all of the original members of said community. Look at places like subredditdrama, creepyPMs, or offmychest for pretty classic examples.
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[–] WillyWonka 0 points 8 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago
Exactly, I think we should set straight an implicit/informal manifesto as a community to keep ourselves open and civilized as far as possible and shun on any powertrip-like behavior
[–] AssHunter9000 0 points 13 points 13 points (+13|-0) ago
Implementing a system wherein users are able to hold mods in check would be a huge start. That's one of the major problems with reddit. The community is forced to be accountable to the mods, but the mods aren't accountable to the community.
A group of renegade mods can worm their way into a community, completely blow it up or change it totally, driving out or marginalizing all of the original members of said community. Look at places like subredditdrama, creepyPMs, or offmychest for pretty classic examples.
[–] brianpurkiss 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
The danger of that is users being able to abuse the system against the mods.
Think about 4chan. Any such system would allow any group of trolls to overthrow any mod they so choose via a huge influx of voting/whatever.