>>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.
>The fact is that the vast, vast, vast majority of modding today is done by a tiny percentage of the mod base, mostly cyberbarb, caballo, zan, misato, wvobly, with occasional appearances by antinous/sorg/small. That is to say there are about 5 mods doing 90%+ the job out of hypothetically around 15 "theoretically" active mods.If I agree with your proposal, that would mean making at least two new admins, which the staff doesn't seem that keen on. I think having too many admins also creates confusion about what people's responsibilities actually are and who actually has power to do things if there's a disagreement.
>Furthermore there are janitors. The mods can have jannies. per the original post, today the janitor rank is just a probationary period before becoming a full mod. In this setup mods could invite their own retinue/army of janitors who would deal with that stuff in a mass amazon mechanical turk fashion.Okay, but we only had like 4-5 applications to the most recent mod round, would there really be more people wanting to become janitors of individual boards where they don't even have full powers or rights over the site?
>The reason hiring a single board janitor is a lower bar than a mod is because the damage they can do is limited as they can't see IPs. This would allow individual board mods or mod teams to retain their own janitors to deal with spam. This also further decentralizes power as more 'normal' users feel as though they have a stake in the outcomes of modding. Its like a standing militia.I mean I guess, but already we have problems when people disagree over what should be deleted even with the relatively small number of active mods, if we had a bunch of jannies as well that situation would be even worse since all their opinions would have to be taken into account as well.
Basically, I don't really agree with the idea of adding more vertical layers to our existing structure. The admins are already supposed to just be functionaries of the democratic will of the mod team so I don't agree with giving them more powers.