Oh man, you really hit some buttons with me via "Reddit" and "Transparency"! Here is the rant that has been building in me: The transparency I would like are t

Oh man, you really hit some buttons with me via "Reddit" and "Transparency"! Here is the rant that has been building in me: The transparency I would like are three rules: 1) New policy statement: All subreddits must state moderation rules in their side bar. 2) New technical consistency: Open moderation logs for all subreddits. 3) New feature: An open log of moderation complaints for each subreddit. Each complaint costs the submitter $1 (or some reputation?) to avoid spam and most thoughtless complaints. This requires very little from Reddit: Changes (2) and (3) only require technical changes, no personnel intervention. Change (1) Is a policy change, but only requires manual work from Reddit after high technical thresholds: 1a) When moderation complaint logs see a lot of submissions relative to subreddit activity, a warning is automatically sent to the moderators whose moderation is subject to complaints. 1b) Only when a moderator has received several warnings, will someone need to review the complaints, the moderation log and decide if a moderator should be removed, get a personal warning, given a clean slate with regard to past complaints, or no action. 1c) If three or more moderators for the same subreddit have to be removed due to consistent violation of the stated policy, then the subreddit can be closed. The point of all this is: * Users no longer have to deal with deceptive moderation. * Users do most of the oversight, Reddit takes on very little extra work. * Subreddits that spend a lot of time trying to police moderators of related sites can stop. Either there was no problem, it will clear up, or it will be dealt with. * Reddit becomes more useful to everyone except deceptive moderators.