I think it depends on what y'all want ChaCha to be. If it's supposed to be a pipeline to help radicalize libs and other refugees from reddit and other site purges, you're gonna have to accept that you're going to get people with shit opinions and it's not through debate or banning, but exposure of other people's struggles, that's going to help them change their ways. In a scenario like that you'd probably want ChaCha to have a similar style of admin/moderation to reddit with a much more strict secondary site where people are vetted to entry based on their ChaCha activity. I would even say, use the secondary site to ORGANIZE light brigading of ChaCha to maintain the organic illusion of ChaCha being a safe, unified space without the unproductive struggle sessions and mass bannings. Noting, I don't know how well that strategy would work with downvotes being disabled. You'd want to be able to give the illusion of organic silencing of transphobes in a manner that isn't going to have them feel like they need to make 20 more sockpuppet accounts. A minimal karmic threshold score before posting and commenting would also help with that.
without making a second website, having the option to limit or not specific communities behind a interaction-cooldown would achieve this.
Some communities are super open and there's an intent to educate libs (while still banning a lot of obvious shit, same as the old chapo), and some can't be immediately accessed, or maybe even require specific vetting by the community itself/mods.
These more vetted communities can even be partially less-visible, as-in you maybe don't see the posts or the usernames on there if you're not on there, etc..
Then you can have a dedicated community (kinda like what user union is supposed to be) that can talk meta, organize education campaigns, response to issues, combat specific trends and suggest features, and that community can be behind a cooldown, an arbitrary amount of comments/votes/posts or even manual vetting.
I think it depends on what y'all want ChaCha to be. If it's supposed to be a pipeline to help radicalize libs and other refugees from reddit and other site purges, you're gonna have to accept that you're going to get people with shit opinions and it's not through debate or banning, but exposure of other people's struggles, that's going to help them change their ways. In a scenario like that you'd probably want ChaCha to have a similar style of admin/moderation to reddit with a much more strict secondary site where people are vetted to entry based on their ChaCha activity. I would even say, use the secondary site to ORGANIZE light brigading of ChaCha to maintain the organic illusion of ChaCha being a safe, unified space without the unproductive struggle sessions and mass bannings. Noting, I don't know how well that strategy would work with downvotes being disabled. You'd want to be able to give the illusion of organic silencing of transphobes in a manner that isn't going to have them feel like they need to make 20 more sockpuppet accounts. A minimal karmic threshold score before posting and commenting would also help with that.
without making a second website, having the option to limit or not specific communities behind a interaction-cooldown would achieve this. Some communities are super open and there's an intent to educate libs (while still banning a lot of obvious shit, same as the old chapo), and some can't be immediately accessed, or maybe even require specific vetting by the community itself/mods. These more vetted communities can even be partially less-visible, as-in you maybe don't see the posts or the usernames on there if you're not on there, etc..
Then you can have a dedicated community (kinda like what user union is supposed to be) that can talk meta, organize education campaigns, response to issues, combat specific trends and suggest features, and that community can be behind a cooldown, an arbitrary amount of comments/votes/posts or even manual vetting.
I really like this idea