I think lousy annoying manual moderation in smaller communities is hard to beat. Human beings have flaws but we have hundreds of thousands of years of adaptatio

I think lousy annoying manual moderation in smaller communities is hard to beat. Human beings have flaws but we have hundreds of thousands of years of adaptation to making small social circles work that might not work AS well in groups of hundreds or low thousands but they can be made to work acceptably. When you say highly engaged community members I hear people who have no life who derive self importance via imaginary internet points and social position not by doing things but by running their mouths. While it claims to encourage community it discourages it by potentially punishing association. It would make people afraid of being associated with ideas others consider bad which sounds great if you imagine communities run by people that are largely or mostly good and intelligent when in fact people are largely bad selfish and stupid. It would be ruthlessly gamed by individuals whose status would be based on their efforts to stir up drama that sounds fantastic when its directed at people like Epstein or Harvey Weinstein less so when you realize that this would be effective at silencing people regardless of guilt because people would need to as you say cut the branch loose. I have literally never heard a worse system of meta moderation proposed.