This insanely nonsensical behavior is prevalent in tons of communities, and it should be shunned and avoided. These moderators are not worth a fraction of your time.
Don’t disagree fully, but time/energy is definitely a factor in this. I’m really not going to care enough to make an educated vote in all the communities that I’m in, I have better things to do. And likewise for a lot of people probably. Having 3 people vote in a mod doesn’t exactly give confidence either, it makes it easy to game the system. For smaller communities it’s probably better to retain the “benevolent dictator” system and punish any unruly mods with abandoning their community for a new one.
Or even better - just let us moderate what we see ourselves. There’s no need for some wannabe dictators to get to decide what we can read or say. I don’t need or want an echo chamber of the mods preferred:allowed opinions and ideologies. As long as it doesn’t break the law just leave it and whoever said it alone, and let everyone else decide how they want to handle it.
Yeah. The big advantage of the fediverse is that “if you don’t like it, leave” is practical advise instead of a way for the powerful to shut down arguments.
In theory sure, but not in reality. Most communities are already consolidated on here, so shitty mods have control just like they do on reddit. “Just make a new sub if you don’t like the mods” didn’t work in Reddit and it doesn’t work on the fediverse for the exact same reasons.
What we need is for mods to basically have no power over users or what they say. No bans, no deleting comments, no removing posts - just let people ignore/block who they want, and give them robust filtering options. It would be infinitely better for everyone who isn’t a big girls blouse who craves censorship of differing opinions.
This insanely nonsensical behavior is prevalent in tons of communities, and it should be shunned and avoided. These moderators are not worth a fraction of your time.
Moderator elections!
No joke, Periodic changing of mods might be a better long term strategy. Or like you said a small election from time to time.
Any position of power should be chosen by the people of that community, not picked by the others already in power
Don’t disagree fully, but time/energy is definitely a factor in this. I’m really not going to care enough to make an educated vote in all the communities that I’m in, I have better things to do. And likewise for a lot of people probably. Having 3 people vote in a mod doesn’t exactly give confidence either, it makes it easy to game the system. For smaller communities it’s probably better to retain the “benevolent dictator” system and punish any unruly mods with abandoning their community for a new one.
Yes yes. Another solution would be “no ban can be done by a single person/mod but the entire mod team, looking at the evidence aso”
Or good old lottery instead of voting. Lottery getting random users to be mod for a curtain time
Elections are so hard, nobody gets them implemented right
Or even better - just let us moderate what we see ourselves. There’s no need for some wannabe dictators to get to decide what we can read or say. I don’t need or want an echo chamber of the mods preferred:allowed opinions and ideologies. As long as it doesn’t break the law just leave it and whoever said it alone, and let everyone else decide how they want to handle it.
Yeah. The big advantage of the fediverse is that “if you don’t like it, leave” is practical advise instead of a way for the powerful to shut down arguments.
In theory sure, but not in reality. Most communities are already consolidated on here, so shitty mods have control just like they do on reddit. “Just make a new sub if you don’t like the mods” didn’t work in Reddit and it doesn’t work on the fediverse for the exact same reasons.
What we need is for mods to basically have no power over users or what they say. No bans, no deleting comments, no removing posts - just let people ignore/block who they want, and give them robust filtering options. It would be infinitely better for everyone who isn’t a big girls blouse who craves censorship of differing opinions.