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This sounds like it would require a lot more people to perform moderation -- an emotionally taxing and thankless task -- to come up with a community that everyo

This sounds like it would require a lot more people to perform moderation -- an emotionally taxing and thankless task -- to come up with a community that everyone enjoys their own facet of. I also think it will lead to the Nazi bar problem: https://twitter.com/IamRageSparkle/status/1280891537451343873?s=20 https://twitter.com/IamRageSparkle/status/128089153745134387... >"you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it's always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don't want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too. >And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it's too late because they're entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down. >And i was like, 'oh damn.' and he said "yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people." If someone posts totally innocuous, on-topic content one day, and absolutely heinous stuff the next, I don't want to only see the innocuous stuff -- I want to not have to be around someone who has shown that they are an awful person at heart, and I also don't want to be in a space that will quickly be filled with their friends (and which my friends will have to endlessly moderate away).

fnovd 3y ago
I'm actually talking about having virtually the same setup we have now, just with a moderator B-team (and C, D, etc.), whose view you can subscribe to instead of the main one. Really the question is not "should we have moderators?" but rather "what does the 1:1 moderator-team-to-community ratio do for us?" From the perspective of an average user, subscribing to a big sub and using the default moderation view, nothing is changing. The only difference is that there are other moderator views created by different teams using the same content source.

fnovd 3y ago

I'm actually talking about having virtually the same setup we have now, just with a moderator B-team (and C, D, etc.), whose view you can subscribe to instead of the main one. Really the question is not "should we have moderators?" but rather "what does the 1:1 moderator-team-to-community ratio do for us?" From the perspective of an average user, subscribing to a big sub and using the default moderation view, nothing is changing. The only difference is that there are other moderator views created by different teams using the same content source.