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Re:Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive... by cgb223 on Monday December 18, 2017 @04:53PM (#15955857)
Exactly.

It's essentially an example of a benevolent dictator model.

Right now the people moderating are doing a great and largely unbiased job, but if you try to scale, you'll bring in new people, and gradually the quality of those moderators will vary with the larger group.

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Re:Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive... by staunch on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @03:38PM (#15973573)
This is just lack of imagination talking.

Reddit's sub-reddit moderator system is just one example of how to scale moderation to millions of users. If a moderator gets out of hand, reddit admins step in or users move to a new subreddit.

There are a virtually unlimited number of systems like this one could create and make work.

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