I thought it was a bit ridiculous when I saw a suggestion of me becoming a mod but with the brigading spammers because for the most part I'm very hands off. With summer holidays right around the corner and no lifers coming out of woodwork along with us being one user away from having child porn spammed I think someone needs to step in. Otherwise potentially the whole site is going to get nuked because I've seen this behaviour before back on reddit. Whoever these brigaders really are seem to be deliberately posting gradually worse content and 'views' up to try and fuck with everyone and it's much more obvious now who it is.
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Yes just get someone who's been on here forever and doesn't ask for it.
That's generally the right approach.
But it's also hard for obviously absentee mods to even notice the trouble free long-term users.
At some point some of the other regular users have to start naming names to make choices.
I get the theory.
But how does one get selected as a candidate without applying or volunteering?
Are we instituting a lottery or a draft?
And that is the central problem of governance.
Generally, it can start by people nominating others they think would make a decent choice. I could think of a few names off the top of my head.
Something else to consider is that, if the site works the way I think it does, Dom should be able to maintain admin in the event of an emergency situation.
That actually makes sense and is an avenue I hadn't considered.
Of course, such a nomination process could be easily gamed as well.
Thats how we tried doing it on c/gaming after the mod threw a fit and left. Too bad the admins completely ignored the nomination threads.
Lottery for comment removing powers. Open mod log easily accessible.
Yep. Possibly the only cool and effective forum mods I ever knew didn't even have that strong interest in the subject matter of the forum, nor being a mod at all. Was just a cool, talented, intelligent and funny dude.
Plus it's exhausting, thankless work that requires a certain level of autism if the traffic is high enough, and if you have a life and actual responsibilities then it's even less likely that you would bother with such a thing. I'd much rather be enjoying my mediums of choice with my limited free time.
I was a chat server owner for a year and even that was exhausting and tedious even though there wasn't that much to moderate since I chose the community myself.
I'm not begging I'm just convinced the brigaders are going to escalate to child porn shit or pedo posting and don't want to see that spammed all over the place, other communities should be warned as well I think.
There is no brigade, just one pedo who's been creating alts for literally years and has apparently decided to start targeting lightly moderated boards.