In reply to @zimbatm:numtide.com
maybe what we should do is take an empirical approach to the problem. create a small moderation team, for a limited amount of time, and see how it works out

In reply to @tomberek:matrix.org
That is a limited view of legalistic. It also means admitting the system can fail. Checks and balances. Protections from abuse.

you can have such protections in a non-legalistic system as well, my point here is more that a legalistic approach just fundamentally cannot work as well at this scale.

but to give an example, in PG (formerly PTIO) we have a 'community reports' room that essentially serves as a room for discussing and questioning moderation decisions. it is exempt from the community-wide ban bot, and the threshold for getting banned there is very high.

by having a dedicated separate room for this, it prevents concern trolling in the main rooms (as there's nothing to disrupt, anyone in comrep is there because they are interested in the topic), while still leaving plenty of opportunity for community members to publicly question moderation decisions

In reply to @zimbatm:numtide.com
and if the moderation team goes out of hand, it would be sweet to have a community-wide mechanism that can disband the team

In reply to @zimbatm:numtide.com
and if the moderation team goes out of hand, it would be sweet to have a community-wide mechanism that can disband the team

In reply to @joepie91:pixie.town
that is of course a safeguard that's specifically designed for the moderation structure over at PG; different systems (RFC98 is very different!) will warrant different safeguards

In reply to @piegames:matrix.org
Something like StackOverflow's "moderator election"?

In reply to @piegames:matrix.org
Something like StackOverflow's "moderator election"?

In reply to @zimbatm:numtide.com
we're missing a concept of "community member"

In reply to @zimbatm:numtide.com
it would be interesting to put that in place but that's a whole other discussion :)

also, I should note that a downside of the comrep room approach is that when I became a moderator there, I have spent many, many hours of my time in there explaining moderation decisions in excruciating detail, because the community was not yet used to, well, having moderation at all really (it had devolved into an unusable room full of spam and gore and whatnot) - and that was a very exhausting process as a moderator. but as the understanding among the community grew, that stopped being an issue.

with the NixOS community still being quite healthy comparatively speaking, I doubt this will be as exhausting for moderators as it was at PTIO, but it's still a drawback worth considering

In reply to @jonringer:matrix.org
For my second RFC, I was going to take take a lot of the moderation team content from it. As I said earlier, there are parts of it I like (motivation section, value section, having a sustainable rotating moderation team), but there's other parts that I have extreme concern about

In reply to @joepie91:pixie.town
especially if your disagreement is not with the fundamental values, I feel like it should be possible to raise and discuss these concerns in the context of the existing RFC, rather than needing to create a new one