So this is a half formed idea that might be horrible, I thought I’d throw it out there for critique.
- We have a problem on Kbin.social and probably other instances of under staffed moderation & admin teams.
- Some large magazines have a single moderator
- This will soon lead to *bad-shit appearing here
- We will likely get de-federated at some point
A random selection of peers is good enough for juries. So how about we apply it here?
Every ~100th new user is made a site wide Admin (cannot delete only unpublish content, it remains visible in the backend to other mods)
Every ~100th new Magazine subscriber is similarly made a mod of that space.
A few would go powertripping, many would be inactive, but I think it might build the mod/admin team in a reasonable way.
We have to build the processes for powertripping/inactive admins anyway, so in a sense it’s not extra work.
You’d build in some randomness, so the system was harder to game, it wouldn’t literally be the 100th person. It might be the 80th, or 110th, but averaging out at ~100
@Sam_uk Yeah, that’s pretty much how I was imagining it. If a bot could maintain the threshold checks and ticket pools, then just automatically promote someone (and send 'em a nice template message lmao), then I’d consider implementing this in my own magazine. I’d only need to review the users approaching the 12-week threshold, which is likely to be a fraction of the whole magazine even during peak growth times. If there’s anyone concerning (like a bot), I have 12 weeks to filter them out of the pool. Eventually the lottery mods can filter themselves lol.
Assuming it actually works, the pool of lottery mods could be allowed to choose/replace the actual mods too, which is approaching how democracy actually works lmao. That’s kind of fun!
Have you read The Dictator’s Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita & Alastair Smith? I think you may enjoy it. Very grossly oversimplifying here, but broadly, as more people have a say in who holds power, corruption becomes increasingly difficult. It eventually even stabilizes into being a competitive “who has the best idea” game, which is really good for society lol. If your goal is healthy societal growth, see if you can always be pushing for more people to have a relevant vote!