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What's the alternative?
by dublinben 13y ago
What's the alternative?
- minimaxir 13y agoThere are a few alternatives: 1) Have each subreddit democractically elect/delect its moderators after N period of time. 2) Make moderation log public to provide more accountability to moderator actions 3) Pay the moderators, either from the Reddit business itself, profit-sharing from ads on the subreddit, or through community donations. All 3 would disincentivize the moderators from behaving badly. However, the methods may not scale easily.
- dublinben 13y agoI think moderator elections are a bad idea. First, participation will never be very high. Second, there is no way to make the elections reliable. Public moderation logs have been tried in the past, and nobody bothers to read them. They're an important move towards transparency, but they are powerless without user engagement. Paying moderators might sound fair, but it would lead to all sorts of perverse incentives. How would the revenue be split? What is to stop top moderators from removing others in order to keep more money for themselves?