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We're the creators of Lemmy, Ask Us Anything. Starts Monday, 7 Aug, 1500 CEST (lemmy.ml)

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This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they'd like to @[email protected] and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.

Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Part of what you would need to create is a qualified voter system.

For a meme sub, maybe the qualified voters are known participants in the community over a period of time.

For a more technical sub like what AskHistorians is on Reddit, voters are those qualified to answer questions.

It doesn't have to be open to everyone, just the interested.

And you keep coming back to the federation model as a way to keep this in check, but it is still a dictatorial model and the only answer to dealing with a bad head mod is to destroy a community and lose the history of that community.

[–] StudioLE 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"qualified voter system" sounds all too much like karma that's readily gamed with repost bots creating a worse experience for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mods can alter who becomes qualified.

But lets face it, there are already a ton of reposters here already.

[–] StudioLE 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd be surprised if users routinely recognised one another, but perhaps I've just not participated much in the past.

Interestingl, linked elsewhere in this thread, there is a middle ground between global karma and existing mod opinion: https://lemmy.ml/comment/2377401

Effectively rather than considering the total upvotes/down votes you could consider only the votes cast by already trusted members. Although it may be a little too close to MeowMeowBeenz

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah. I would pick karma within the community as a rough basis. Even then, I would keep the karma limit low to prevent a MeowMeowBeenz issue. It just shows that you're a participating member of the community.