In the early days of this site, it was common to flirt with the idea of running it more democratically. This was correctly deemed unfeasible during the Age of Struggle Sessions and the arbitrary dictatorship of the mods was cemented.
But maybe the problem wasn't democracy itself, but trying to jump the gun by modeling the site democracy after bourgeois or proletarian democracies. What we need to do is go back to the roots, reform the site to be more like ancient Athenian democracy.
I suggest the first reform is to implement a system of Ostrakismos, where once in a while there is a thread where we can name other users, and if one or more of these comments gets above a certain threshold of upvotes, the named user with the most upvotes on the comment gets banned for a year.
I suggest we model it after the late Roman republic when organized mob violence against your political opponents was commonplace
I'll offer a diadem to each admin and if they put it on they're tyrannical kings
What we should do is vote once a year for a representative to represent us, and then let them single handedly choose a council to make rules and decisions. That council then serves for life and can never be removed. It's up to each yearly representative to determine if they want to add to the council though. They get to replace members of the council if those members leave too. The council can make any decisions they want about anything ever with zero oversight but it's okay because every year we get to vote once on who chooses members of the council so if we don't like what the council is doing we can just vote for a different leader and they can maybe add someone to the council. Or we can hope the bad people on the council quit or die.
Anyway I'm told this is the best system of democracy ever so it's definitely what we should do here at The United Federations of Hexbears
once a year sounds like a hassle, what if we made it every six years?
It has to be more often than that because I just can't hold my
in that long
We should pick admins and mods randomly from the users every six months, if you are picked you have to serve
I think lemmy should implement built in polls so we can vooooooooote
on what? anything and everything, all day. nothing more democratic than that
should [slightly stale bit] posting continue?
and every time we overwhelmingly vote yes, stuck in a loop of getting tired of a joke but thinking voting against the logical choice is funny, which rejuvenates the lame bit. eventually it will just be garfield posting, 100% of the time in pure earnest
honestly I'd like to see temp bans employed more. I don't know why it's either perma or nothing.
Some users just need a time-out to think about what they've done
I say we have a lottery, one lucky user every month wins and the rest of beat them with stones as tribute to the Lathe
The solution is to let me decide everything since I have the most good and correct takes
the people who do the work get the say. posters don't work -- the people running the site do. letting random people vote on stuff is deeply counterproductive and would just lead to constant squabbles with wreckers. no thank you.
sounds like something someone who's afraid of getting ostrakismosed would say
If you stop me from posting I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
