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Normal users browse new and vote for good content. This works pretty well! Could you designate a bunch of people as mini moderators and have the majority vote

• Tildey 5y ago
  That sounds like a good idea, but in practice it turns into an unmanageable disaster of petty removals and biased moderation. r/science has something like 1500 moderators, most of which only have the power to remove comments. The rules are applied seemingly at random, and the problematic posts/titles are rarely actually fixed, they just have a sea of [removed] under them. This makes the biased posts even worse as the comments correcting them and the discussion about it disappears.
  • evandwight 5y ago
    That explains it why /r/science is such a graveyard! Thank you! It sounds like if any of the 1500 mods dislike a comment, then that comment disappears. That's extremely biased towards removing comments. My suggestion would have those 1500 mini mods vote "keep" or "remove" - majority wins. The main mod can look at contentious votes and override the mini mods decisions. Further the main mod can remove mini mods that are voting poorly.