Call for Directors

Risk should be minimal if the forum assembles a team of moderators who just kill everything out of line with fire

I thought about this just this morning.

If some programmers have time you could build wide-scale community moderation.

i.e.

• If you've been on the forum longer than n time and have posted more than x times... you're on the moderation team
  
• Anything reported creates a thread in a hidden forum, and a notification to all moderators something needs acting on
  
• No single moderator can do anything, a consensus would have to emerge, i.e this protects against a bad moderator, and also means in the messy cases the majority opinion wins... this is a "vote for ban", "vote for delete", "vote for shadowban" type thing... whichever gets the most votes on some scale would be auto-applied
  
  

This kind of thing would mean you don't have to have one or two, or even 10, people be a moderator... you'd have hundreds immediately.

The tuning of "default actions after x time" would be something the site admin does to reduce the risk to Directors... but otherwise you could groupthink the moderation and diffuse it widely.