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The 100CP is a good method. Potentially open to abuse in that 100+ dedicated foreigners could create accounts, circlevote themselves up and then oust the current mods.
To deal with that, I'd suggest not automating the actual replacement of the mods. The referendum should be confirmed by a real person, preferably an admin.
The actual criteria isn't all that important, as it's just a matter of deciding the best way of determining involvement in a sub. It can be dealt with later, by some smart people looking over tables and graphs of user data; the more pressing issue is whether or not we want users to be able to dethrone mods.
If I had to make a suggestion, it'd be membership for a certain period of time and a certain amount of CP, ideally derived from a formula taking into account the sub in question, perhaps using the median or mean CP or average subscription time for the sub. You could weight the votes differently depending on how much CP they have or how long they've been in the sub, or limit voting to the top X users.
Another concern that would have to be dealt with is a method to prevent newly-formed subs from being stolen immediately. This could be a grace period, additional weighting given to the current admins or a required percentage that varies according to the number of users, with a very high requirement at the beginning. Again, smart people with graphs can figure this out.
I'm no statistician. I can't say which would be best. Perhaps a variety of options could be present, to be set by the mod at the start? They would be presets, so the creator couldn't set requirements to be absurd.
Rather than a fixed number, it needs to be a floating number linked to some sub-specific index; it could be aimed to target the top N% of subscribers by post count in that sub or something like that.
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[–] 1234567890 0 points 9 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago
The 100CP is a good method. Potentially open to abuse in that 100+ dedicated foreigners could create accounts, circlevote themselves up and then oust the current mods.
To deal with that, I'd suggest not automating the actual replacement of the mods. The referendum should be confirmed by a real person, preferably an admin.
[–] nearly-evil ago
Do you think making it 500 or 100 would be better? Or perhaps bust be an account that shared content in that sub over a period of time?
[–] 1234567890 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
The actual criteria isn't all that important, as it's just a matter of deciding the best way of determining involvement in a sub. It can be dealt with later, by some smart people looking over tables and graphs of user data; the more pressing issue is whether or not we want users to be able to dethrone mods.
If I had to make a suggestion, it'd be membership for a certain period of time and a certain amount of CP, ideally derived from a formula taking into account the sub in question, perhaps using the median or mean CP or average subscription time for the sub. You could weight the votes differently depending on how much CP they have or how long they've been in the sub, or limit voting to the top X users.
Another concern that would have to be dealt with is a method to prevent newly-formed subs from being stolen immediately. This could be a grace period, additional weighting given to the current admins or a required percentage that varies according to the number of users, with a very high requirement at the beginning. Again, smart people with graphs can figure this out.
I'm no statistician. I can't say which would be best. Perhaps a variety of options could be present, to be set by the mod at the start? They would be presets, so the creator couldn't set requirements to be absurd.
[–] Dick-Tracy ago
Rather than a fixed number, it needs to be a floating number linked to some sub-specific index; it could be aimed to target the top N% of subscribers by post count in that sub or something like that.
Fixed numbers don't scale ;)