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Re:Storming Reddit's Moat by colejohnson66 on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @06:19PM (#25840332)
I don’t think there’s really a good solution here... Anyone can go rogue anytime.

Stack Exchange attempts to solve this using three methods: their “reputation” method (gamification), elections, and paid moderators. If you can prove to the community you’d be good, you and a few others are “elected” community moderators (happens once a year?). If you get 10k reputation on a single site, you get access to those moderator tools as well.

And for those with less, you get a smaller set of the tools. For example, IIRC, the “close votes queue” is unlocked at 3k(?). It seems to work well enough.

Re:Storming Reddit's Moat by fjabre on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @10:10AM (#25847283)
Paying your mods. There's a novel idea!

Absolutely agree these systems can work when designed the right way. Reddit has designed its system as punitive.

Re:Storming Reddit's Moat by colejohnson66 on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @10:23AM (#25847443)
Yep. AFAIK, some of SE’s employees are assigned to work as mods