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I've heard similar proposals made million times, but never seen it implemented. I see a few major problems with it: 1. Moderation is a thankless task, and it'

I've heard similar proposals made million times, but never seen it implemented. I see a few major problems with it: 1. Moderation is a thankless task, and it's unclear why anyone would put in the effort to bootstrap a "moderation group" -- it could be a huge amount of work for zero members 2. Legal liability - the site administrators still need to moderate away illegal content that could get the site closed down 3. Fragmentation - users segregate into separate communities polarized by some conflict or other, which would probably lead to weird community dynamics

gus_massa 8y ago
> 3. Fragmentation It's essentially the idea of having a few subreddits about the same topic, like r/btc and r/bitcoin. (Or something like that, I'm ignoring both.) Both are about the same topic and the difference is how they filter the post and interact with the community. The alternative is to have both groups in a single big supersubreddit, and some users can choose to filters the users baned by the r/btc moderator, some users can chose to filter the users banned by the r/bitcoin moderators, some users can choose to filter both, and some users can choose to filter neither. (And there are a few more alternatives, the mods can add whitelist too and you can combine them.) I don't know if it may work, but the brigade wars would be amazing.