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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.
I really disagree, moderators need to make unpopular decisions sometimes to keep communities intact. Online polls are notoriously easy to game as well.
If the users want to kill their own community with bad decisions, that is their right. A mod shouldn't get to stop it.
Normally I'd agree with voting on moderators, but at this time, spez would just manipulate the votes against the protesting mods.
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:
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.
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.
Yes! Specially pre-IPO. Investors really do not like things changing suddenly, as they increase the associated risk.