Apologies for the confusion: I mean delegation of power on the "social" front of things; "social networks" shouldn't be interpreted as Facebook or Twitter but a

Apologies for the confusion: I mean delegation of power on the "social" front of things; "social networks" shouldn't be interpreted as Facebook or Twitter but as the literal concept of humans forming a social network through any kind of system. And yes, I believe that it is inevitable in that everyone moderating everyone doesn't scale. Your comment and replies to it makes good points about the technical side of this tricky problem. What I was getting at is the original social needs that drives the demand for these kinds of technical solutions to begin with. Those are very tricky things to figure out, especially since there are both "group needs" and "individual needs" that can be at odds.