I agree this is an interesting topic. You're right that the pool of moderators + meta-moderators was the same, but I think there's value in a kind of "peer rev

I agree this is an interesting topic. You're right that the pool of moderators + meta-moderators was the same, but I think there's value in a kind of "peer review" for voting. On Reddit almost everyone (who expresses an opinion) complains that people use downvotes to disagree but I suspect that even the people complaining about it do the same thing from time to time (even if they rationalise it). Sometimes it's helpful for someone not involved in the argument to judge what you've done, even if that person is quite like you. It's pretty easy to imagine excluding anyone who replied to that same thread from meta moderating (or maybe doing something more sophisticated than that). It's not really about the trolls upvoting ASCII swastikas but the people regularly downvoting otherwise OK posts because they dislike someone's argument or their name or what they said in a completely different conversation. Or maybe it's about people upvoting low effort content (but for that to work, you would have different people metamoderating like you say). It's hard to judge based on outcomes but I always felt Slashdot made you think about voting in a slightly different way. The system as it was there wouldn't work with Reddit for a variety of reasons but it's still useful to think about.