its clear to me that the current mod team is about as effective as an impacted bowel, and so radical reform is needed. I feel as though we should have a federal structure for leftypol. I.E. reorganize the matrix chat so that we have one room per board. Instead of having site wide mods we would have each board be governed by a single mod (for slower boards) or a clique of mods who share power. Each mod/mod clique could make their own decisions about who to bring on as janitors under them. Unlike now, those janitors would only be invited to the proper board-related room, and would not simply be junior mods non probation but instead would be perma-jannies.
Developers/IT people and Administrators would still have site-wide power.
In order to break up the traffic to multiple boards, /leftypol/ would simply become the name of the overboard/site itself, and we could have in addition to a brazilian board, other boards for geopolitics, /edu/ would be renamed /theory/, etc.
I feel this would be a good thing because currently you have a ton of inactive or semi inactive mods who just hang out in the matrix all day and don't actually mod. Giving them their own little project/fiefdom would encourage them to clean up the thumbnail graveyard, and actually do maintenance on the alt boards.
you could have performance based metrics, using PPH / IPs on the front page you could measure if the mod is doing a good job by whether they have driven more traffic to their board over time while maintaining quality. If they do a good job they can get responsibility over another board of their choice, if not they will lose out to someone who does.
5 posts and 2 image replies omitted.>>36235>I never suggested larger boards should only have 1 mod. In the OP i said you have have a clique of mods instead of one, especially for higher traffic boards. I mean sure but this would necessarily mean that not all the mods we have on staff would be able to mod all boards. Which IMO is bad for coverage.
>giving particular mods control of particular boards encourages accountability.I mean yeah I kinda agree on this, which is why I said above that maybe we can appoint a mod for each board (probably not leftypol because it's too big), and they will have special responsibility for it, but not that only they can mod it.
>The reason is because when every mod controls every board you have a bunch of free riders.I mean is free riders really an issue? Not like anyone's getting paid here.
>Lets take your example of the CP on a low population board. The reality is that an admin would likely be the one to remove that even today. The same people who are admins now, would be the ones removing it in reality already.
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