Community mod elections are on the cards once there’s some voting mechanisms built into the software.
Right now it’s operating on a broad mass line approach, rather than formal voting. Beatnik grabbed a bunch of volunteers initially, since there was a discord server with approx 10k people to organise. If the community at large raises concerns about any of them, they’ll stand down, as we’ve already seen happen.
A bigger question you might want to think about is around selection for participation in the Cooperative, and the wider dev team. This includes site-wide moderators, but isn’t limited to them. Again, this (loose) structure is currently made up of volunteers selected by Beatnik.
It’d be fair to describe the current approach as Democratic Centralism. Beatnik’s unelected, but has broad support of the community. Votes are taken every so often on issues that might be contentious. Mods for newly created communities are selected based off of peer approval.
The team is always monitoring the community to see if they’ve got it right. This sort of setup is appropriate for our current circumstances. As things move along, we can expect other mechanisms to emerge. These will include formal elections for some positions, like local community moderators. It’ll likely also include more sophisticated feedback mechanisms than the dev team constantly monitoring new messages on the Ark and here.
I was talking about the vouching approach over at !commrequest@hexbear.net. If you’re requesting a community and you want to mod it, it’s encouraged to have a few people from the Discord vouch for you.
Community mod elections are on the cards once there’s some voting mechanisms built into the software.
Right now it’s operating on a broad mass line approach, rather than formal voting. Beatnik grabbed a bunch of volunteers initially, since there was a discord server with approx 10k people to organise. If the community at large raises concerns about any of them, they’ll stand down, as we’ve already seen happen.
A bigger question you might want to think about is around selection for participation in the Cooperative, and the wider dev team. This includes site-wide moderators, but isn’t limited to them. Again, this (loose) structure is currently made up of volunteers selected by Beatnik.
It’d be fair to describe the current approach as Democratic Centralism. Beatnik’s unelected, but has broad support of the community. Votes are taken every so often on issues that might be contentious. Mods for newly created communities are selected based off of peer approval.
The team is always monitoring the community to see if they’ve got it right. This sort of setup is appropriate for our current circumstances. As things move along, we can expect other mechanisms to emerge. These will include formal elections for some positions, like local community moderators. It’ll likely also include more sophisticated feedback mechanisms than the dev team constantly monitoring new messages on the Ark and here.
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I was talking about the vouching approach over at !commrequest@hexbear.net. If you’re requesting a community and you want to mod it, it’s encouraged to have a few people from the Discord vouch for you.
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