How about letting redditors vote out CEOs?
I feel like having people vote on moderators would be an improvement but how can you complain about the lack of democracy when you are literally Reddit.
In another context, detached from Reddit burning, I feel like this could be an improvement; but only if done right. Here odds are that they’d do it wrong, rushed, and it would make the subreddits worse instead of better.
The main problem that I see is how to define who’s part of the community, and who isn’t, in a form that:
- prioritises content creators over lurkers
- prioritises lurkers over people who don’t engage the community, not even passively
- avoids bots flinging decisions back and forth
- avoids raiding/brigading skewing up the votes
There’s also the issue with conflicts of interest between 2+ legit chunks of the community. Specially on the scope of a community, if “wide” (shallow content, but more approachable for everyone) or “deep” (well-developed content, but less approachable for most people). If done wrong you’d have only “wide” communities, and people who want deeper discussions would be effectively deplatformed.
Those things are not unsolvable matters, mind you. But I don’t think that Reddit is able to solve them before crashing.
Actually… Reddit has been experimenting with this for a few years in r/cryptocurrency where people earn “moons” depending on a series of rules based on their engagement, submissions, number of upvotes, community participation, and so on.
It’s mostly led to people gambling the system to earn money.
I definitely don’t think the current system is ready to be deployed on a site wide scale, but it would be interesting to see them try 🍿🍿
That’s interesting. I wonder how much of the gambling was intrinsic to the idea, and how much it was caused by how and where (like, you’re dropping a new crypto in a comm where people try to make money from crypto. Of course you’ll get some abuse)
Another scenario that could ruin this idea would be well-organised infiltration - like a half dozen posters coordinating to game the system together, so they have more power than they should, until they can force the community to become something else.
but it would be interesting to see them try 🍿🍿
Yes! Specially pre-IPO. Investors really do not like things changing suddenly, as they increase the associated risk.
I really disagree, moderators need to make unpopular decisions sometimes to keep communities intact. Online polls are notoriously easy to game as well.
On /r/moderatepolitics, our usual practice is a proposal combined with a request for comment thread. We then try to shape the final policy change more or less around what the community wants. But that doesn’t always exactly happen. Sometimes there’s no clear consensus or even just simple majority. Other times, we go against the prevailing opinion because it causes a severe problem. We then convene as a mod team and take a vote.
Normally I’d agree with voting on moderators, but at this time, spez would just manipulate the votes against the protesting mods.
And then he’d just, take the feature away again after kicking everyone he doesn’t like off. Voting would be a great way to get rid of the subreddit monopoly with awkward turtle and turds like him who own all the subreddits, ban people for no reason and remove all the good posts to ensure everyone’s feed is worthless reposted trash.
The biggest middle-finger to him would be if really all “restive” subreddits agree on re-electing their respective mods.
The biggest middle-finger to him would be if really all “restive” subreddits agree on re-electing their respective mods.
This is the main reason why I won’t go scorched earth and delete my account there. If there are polls on this, I want to be part of it. All the people who cared enough about the blackout to leave and delete their accounts last week are dead to Steve, he can’t monetize them anymore.
Although that’s not to say the blackout has had no effect on me. I’m here now, after all, and will probably end up splitting my attention here even if Reddit rethinks things.
Final tally is in. 11,000 of the 10,000 subscribers have voted to remove the mod effective immediately.
Oh Steve, you just loves to digg Reddit’s grave.