Experimental thought, but something I want to do in near future.

Basically admins and mods are selected sortitionally( randomly) from people who apply.

All admins and mods have fixed term limits.

Existence of Mod or Admin trials where a public chat(court) decides consequences for their actions, if they misbehave, could lead to

Ever since I learnt about the sortition system, I was incredibly curious how it would work irl, hence this idea.

Look, I am not going to claim this is a solution to anything, till ones actually up and running I think it’s hard to say which direction it will go. But still, I want your opinion on it.

On How to encourage people to mod a community?

By making mod duty easy for them, have small term limits, and in those term limits they only have to work for 4/3 days a week. Term could be just few weeks. Also get lot more mods and give them specific time slots beyond which they are vastly not needed unless an emergency.

  • cinoreus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    2·
    14 hours ago

    Application is important because applying means you’re motivated enough to take the role. Also limiting to people who have an account in the instance.

    And yes, you bring a good point, random people can and should participate in it.

    Csam was the true bane, and while cloudflare does have some protection, I am actively looking for better ways, even thinking of using qwen or deepseek v4 for specifically that. Except with open weight models it’s not just the model but who’s hosting it that’s also something one must take into consideration.

    I believe admins would be good enough for spam, csam and scam stuff, let’s see though how it works out first

    • INeedMana@piefed.zipEnglish
      2·
      12 hours ago

      I’m afraid that with applications it would end up with the same situation we have now. 2-3 people per instance

      For sure only local accounts should have voting rights

      • cinoreus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        2·
        12 hours ago

        Well, bringing down the level of commitment required for being an admin or mod may increase the number of applicants, though if it’s enough to sustain the idea is something I don’t think I have an answer for.