Reddit’s voting and moderation design is basically flawed, and the parts of that which Lemmy has copied are flawed in exactly the same way.
Any system that requires people to be in a position of power, yet not abuse that power, is broken.
I’m not saying that it’s the best solution, but when I used to use Slashdot, it seems like it would randomly ask people to moderate comments (who had opted in), rather than have preset moderators. And then presumably, they would collate the results of multiple moderators and use that to decide who could be trusted with more moderation.
This is one example of a method to avoid power tripping mods.
Reddit’s voting and moderation design is basically flawed, and the parts of that which Lemmy has copied are flawed in exactly the same way.
Any system that requires people to be in a position of power, yet not abuse that power, is broken.
I’m not saying that it’s the best solution, but when I used to use Slashdot, it seems like it would randomly ask people to moderate comments (who had opted in), rather than have preset moderators. And then presumably, they would collate the results of multiple moderators and use that to decide who could be trusted with more moderation.
This is one example of a method to avoid power tripping mods.
Slashdot also let mods mark comments as funny, insightful, spam, etc.
As a reader you could sort by these and read it for the laughs or read it for the education. In hindsight that system was ahead of its time.
Why do you think slashdot didn’t become mainstream?
My take is that Slashdot’s vision was of a single community, which limited its scale.