Rather than directly choosing sides as a mod, in such an event allow admins to trigger a mod election, where all active users in a sub can vote for anyone they want to be a mod. A complete mod election can be triggered by a 51% vote of active users.
For particularly volatile subs (or for subs where the creator sets it this way), set up a vote on a schedule so users can vote for mods regularly -- say, annually.
Democratic subs can't appoint mods at all, existing mods can trigger an election before their term ends by stepping down, or a group of mods can trigger an election for vacant spaces by voting 51% to increase the number of mod spaces.
The problem right now with the moderator system is that it's basically a system without accountability. Mods create and destroy mods, and so all it takes is for a sub to be taken over is one malicious mod.
At the end of the day moderators made believe that they own the communities they moderate. That is simply not true. The communities bring all the value to the community. If we reduce the power to individual moderators, if we allow the community to choose who they want leading them, if we Implement voting systems for key decisions man I feel the admin will need to step in a lot less because democracy tends to be a self regulating system.
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Mod democracy.
Rather than directly choosing sides as a mod, in such an event allow admins to trigger a mod election, where all active users in a sub can vote for anyone they want to be a mod. A complete mod election can be triggered by a 51% vote of active users.
For particularly volatile subs (or for subs where the creator sets it this way), set up a vote on a schedule so users can vote for mods regularly -- say, annually.
Democratic subs can't appoint mods at all, existing mods can trigger an election before their term ends by stepping down, or a group of mods can trigger an election for vacant spaces by voting 51% to increase the number of mod spaces.
The problem right now with the moderator system is that it's basically a system without accountability. Mods create and destroy mods, and so all it takes is for a sub to be taken over is one malicious mod.
At the end of the day moderators made believe that they own the communities they moderate. That is simply not true. The communities bring all the value to the community. If we reduce the power to individual moderators, if we allow the community to choose who they want leading them, if we Implement voting systems for key decisions man I feel the admin will need to step in a lot less because democracy tends to be a self regulating system.