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View submission: The history of the /r/xkcd kerfuffle.
Maybe if a significant percentage of a sub's subscribers object to a mod, they should be able to petition reddit admins to have a mod removed. Make each community more community driven that way. Like a representative democracy, but with the ability to call for a vote at any time.
Comment by DoctorWedgeworth at 09/02/2014 at 15:16 UTC
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That could be fun for 4chan to abuse. I'm for it, let's take over all of the small subreddits!
Comment by Wyboth at 09/02/2014 at 01:06 UTC
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Maybe, but then you have the problem of not all of a subreddit's readers seeing the petition. It'd be difficult to determine how many readers are active on the sub, and how many of those saw the petition. Besides, it would be easy for the head mod to tip off a community he supports to the petition, and have them come in and skew the votes in his favor. But! I think that's still a more favorable system than the current one.
Comment by kingerthethird at 23/04/2014 at 17:36 UTC
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I could see this being abused, especially on smaller subs. It should only be available to larger subs. I'd also want it require a pretty overwhelming majority, 70% or so. A mod can be controversial, without being bad.
How do you limit it to just sub members?
Comment by ghostsarememories at 23/04/2014 at 19:20 UTC
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Maybe a Reddit Admin Supreme Court would work.
Those with a grievance would submit a case to the admins with evidence (like the history above or more detailed). If the admins felt it was worthy, they would open a "hearing" which would allow a more detailed case on both sides. The accused mods could respond and "amicus briefs" from interested parties for either side (like (say) Randall) could be submitted. The admins would ruminate and make a decision. The admins could also examine the behaviour of mods from their own logs.
It would be a more open process than fiat from above but it would allow the mods to respond to unfair criticism. The admins could ignore frivolous submissions (from voting brigades)
Reddit Supreme Court. Not the court Reddit deserves but the court Reddit needs.
Comment by intensely_human at 27/07/2014 at 23:30 UTC
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Just apply upvotes and downvotes to moderator relationships. Moderator with highest overall score gets trump power over other mods.
Comment by taw at 09/02/2014 at 17:50 UTC
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... or they could simply start a new sub. This entire thread is pretty ridiculously overblown, and proposed solution is ridiculous - I sure wouldn't want WotC's lawyers to control every sub about Magic: the Gathering, they'd censor them all to death.