I am curious to see a true anarchic community purely governed by votes. My assumption is a total fucking dysfunctional shitshow that nobody is even remotely happy with but who knows
Without mods and rules, anyone is free to write a script that downvotes every post of another user below the threshold where it gets removed.
So everyone has the power to silence everyone else. This is the opposite of anarchy. It’s a nuclear war.
You wouldn’t end up with a community that regulates itself. You’d end up in a place where either the most vile users push through their own views, one entirely controlled by bots, or one that’s completely disfunctional due to trolling.
Everyone who doesn’t abuse the system leaves, and the abusers then get bored for a lack of victims, leaving behind a dead space.
I wouldn’t say no rules. I would say no hierarchy of users. I do think your assessment of what would happen is accurate. I’m pretty sure that’s how all anarchic systems evolve tbh
I am curious to see a true anarchic community purely governed by votes. My assumption is a total fucking dysfunctional shitshow that nobody is even remotely happy with but who knows
I always thought that mods should be what you subscribe to. Don’t like a mod? Unsubscribe and all posts they’ve dropped come back.
How do you think potentially illegal/ deplorable posted content should be handled then? What about the banning and removing of users?
Without mods and rules, anyone is free to write a script that downvotes every post of another user below the threshold where it gets removed.
So everyone has the power to silence everyone else. This is the opposite of anarchy. It’s a nuclear war.
You wouldn’t end up with a community that regulates itself. You’d end up in a place where either the most vile users push through their own views, one entirely controlled by bots, or one that’s completely disfunctional due to trolling.
Everyone who doesn’t abuse the system leaves, and the abusers then get bored for a lack of victims, leaving behind a dead space.
I wouldn’t say no rules. I would say no hierarchy of users. I do think your assessment of what would happen is accurate. I’m pretty sure that’s how all anarchic systems evolve tbh
Wasn’t that called 4chan?
I think clear mod rules, then challenges to mod acts, appealed to a jury trial of users online.