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First, it's not hard to get a hundred points in any sub - not even counting "circlevoting". It's common to get that much off of one comment in Reddit. So you need to find a better formula for that threshold - one that takes more than just comment points; such as sub size, up/down vote ratio, etc.
Second, it incentivizes abusive mods to silence/ban their critics. Ban the person, no referendum against the mod - or at least one less voter.
Finally, removing bad moderators is fine, but how do you replace them? Ultimately, mods need to work well with other mods in order to be a good mod team. If there are toxic moderators in a team, it's probably because they're mostly OK with that behavior; removing a bad mod doesn't fix that. The other mods will just find someone else whose view aligns with theirs, and it'll be a neverending drama of witchhunting mods.
You need to replace the team, and change the sub rules. But if you're going to change the team and the rules, why not just start your own sub?
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[–] banal9 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
Three flaws.
First, it's not hard to get a hundred points in any sub - not even counting "circlevoting". It's common to get that much off of one comment in Reddit. So you need to find a better formula for that threshold - one that takes more than just comment points; such as sub size, up/down vote ratio, etc.
Second, it incentivizes abusive mods to silence/ban their critics. Ban the person, no referendum against the mod - or at least one less voter.
Finally, removing bad moderators is fine, but how do you replace them? Ultimately, mods need to work well with other mods in order to be a good mod team. If there are toxic moderators in a team, it's probably because they're mostly OK with that behavior; removing a bad mod doesn't fix that. The other mods will just find someone else whose view aligns with theirs, and it'll be a neverending drama of witchhunting mods.
You need to replace the team, and change the sub rules. But if you're going to change the team and the rules, why not just start your own sub?