Reposting since I got 0 input last time.
I got to thinking the other night about how things ought to be done on a site where users voting up and down content determines what everyone sees and I had an idea I'd like to share. Inevitably as this site grows there will likely be some issues that we as an internet community will need to solve. Atko, as good of a leader as s/he may be so far, should not have to deal with the pressure of making decisions that could potentially piss off the internet. In the real world, many civilizations have solved this by doing some form of democracy, but unfortunately in the real world we usually have to settle with some form of representative democracy due to having every citizen vote on every issue is not a viable system of government. Here on the internet, however, we should be able to pull off the ideal form of decision making where everybody gets a chance to Voat (...sorry, vote) on anything and everything that may come up.
So what I propose is this; have a subverse (/v/voatingbooth or whatever) where should issues arise, we schedule a poll with perhaps a 24 hour window and when the poll closes, we do whatever the poll determines that the majority would like to do.
I don't know if this has ever been tried before but what do you all think?
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[–] dijitao 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
Will only result in Tyranny of the majority. We need a system were it's basically impossible for someone to come in and take the place over, direct democracy is the exact opposite of that. Here are some circumstances and how I think they should be dealt with.
Problem: Abusive Moderator
Solution: Moderation logs + a system for flagging an abusive mod. If people can make an informed decision they will just leave subverse with a bad moderator or owner to start a new community.
Problem: Brigading
Solution: Subverse owners need to make use of the per-subverse CCP setting. Unfortunately this removes the subverse from /v/all, this needs to be remedied so the feature can be taken advantage of.
Problem: Subverse Banning
Solution: Admin log with reason for why the subverse was banned. The list of valid reasons should essentially begin and end with engaged in illegal activity.
Problem: User Banning (site level)
Solution: Admin log, full transparency with reason provided
Problem: user Banning (subverse level)
Solution: Moderation log, full transparency with reason provided
etc....