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I figure that microcosms have owners, and that the microcosm owners could set the tone and leadership for a microcosm.
Determining who is a troll can be highly subjective in all but the worst cases. In the rare case that a number of people choose to votekick, I expect the person to return. Should it happen repeatedly then I'd imagine escalating it to the microcosm leader(s) to determine if a permaban should be enacted.
I actually think this is a better system overall.
What I'm proposing is to allow the community themselves to police themselves, by banning from sub-sections (microcosms) either temporarily (when someone is on one of those early hours troll sprees) or permanently from a single microcosm.
It's a damage limitation strategy, and it seeks to do the least harm to a user who might actually be contributing valuable insights elsewhere.
By and large I can't see this being used frequently, but if it were I could always look into removing the privilege of votekick from those who are abusing it.
It's just an idea, not a done deal.
I'd just much rather put the control of a community into the hands of the community. And that shouldn't mean having to have an overarching admin do things... not all admins are benevolent, and so I mean to investigate how to keep them on the straight and narrow by sharing some responsibilities with the people in the community.