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Why doesn't someone just make a social media where everyone is a moderator? (quokk.au)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Krusty@quokk.au to c/askbeehaw@beehaw.org

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So basically classic Reddit. Let the votes matter. Let people decide a down vote threshold (hide posts for me below x number.)

And let all of us who want to see the show put that threshold to negative Infinity and let's have some gosh dang fun!?

I'm kind of thinking it's only a matter of time until someone incorporates the mod log and just reintegrates those messages into a continuous comment hierarchy. Kind of like how pie fed incorporates multiple instances into a single comment tree.

Why the extra steps? Comments are never really deleted you can go look them up. Seems pedantically silly.

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[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I was onboard with the idea as an experiment, until you mentioned admins. Mods are just unpaid admins. If you introduce a hierarchical class of users that can do more than others, it's no longer the 'organic' internet interaction you're selling it as.

I think that's also an important distinction:

Organic social interaction and
Organic internet interaction

are not the same thing. The Internet includes a lot of non-individual, non-human, and non-social actors, in a way that real life doesn't: companies don't send people to insert themselves into your meetups at the library, but they do send 'representatives' into Internet spaces. If you try to replicate the social anarchism of small group meetups on the internet, you will not get an authentic experience.