Call for Directors

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Velocio in reply to @EcuriePeril
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.

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PhilDAS in reply to @Velocio

Another forum I've used has a downvote button. Once downvotes for a post reaches 10, it's automatically removed for moderation, then either deleted or reinstated once someone gets a look at it. This would remove harmful content from being visible very quickly and uses the entire user base as a first stage moderator in a sense. Works pretty well

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frankenbike in reply to @PhilDAS

You can do this with a report button, but keeping them hidden so you don't encourage pile-ons

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