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> One somewhat-related bit on the topic of moderators: does it bother anyone else that the stewards of some of these communities are effectively 100% anonymous?
by tester457 3y ago
> One somewhat-related bit on the topic of moderators: does it bother anyone else that the stewards of some of these communities are effectively 100% anonymous?
It doesn't bother me one bit.
If the community is that big a company should fork over cash and pay employees to moderate it instead, or keep an eye on the volunteer moderators for any suspicious actions.
Instead of exposing identification I rather have moderators be subject to yearly votes. That way squatting is less of an issue.
- lamontcg 3y ago> Instead of exposing identification I rather have moderators be subject to yearly votes. The would just create a brigading problem. Political subs could encourage their members to join lists of hundreds of subreddits and all vote for picked candidates. Coordination could happen on some other site as well.
- tester457 3y agoI thought of a similar issue. It could be limited to active high karma participants of the community, however anyone can game that with GPT powered bots. Another possibility is to have yearly oustings instead of voting mods in. At 90% disapproval mods get kicked out. This along with brigading detection should cover damage by bad actors for the most part.
- lamontcg 3y agoOh yeah, GPT pretty much ruins that. You don't even need humans to brigade now, you just need a bot army. The AI future is going to be amazing...
- mozman 3y agoAny formula you can imagine will be gamed
- rpbiwer2 3y agoIf the bots are gaining enough karma to vote, maybe they deserve it. To prevent the use of bot farms (or people farms) to stockpile votes, maybe we could look to the field of sybil resistance and digital IDs? Stack Overflow has been holding moderator elections for a while. How do they do it?
- krainboltgreene 3y agoOkay, and? It's a subreddit, not presidential nomination.
- Klonoar 3y ago"It's a subreddit" is a diminishing comment when it comes to these channels where you have significant amounts of people turning to them for information. That's the point of my comment, really: this isn't just some site on the internet anymore.
- krainboltgreene 3y agoIt's literally just a site on the internet. You can go to any other site on the internet, even the same site but different slice.