I prefer it to have multiple mods, ideally a majority. That way, you can’t have one mod “go rogue” and add a bunch of alts or whatever, which also means a mod account getting compromised can’t “go rogue.”
I’m less concerned about mod actions like deleting posts, banning users, etc, since mod actions should always be able to be rolled back since most decentralized systems use immutable data (so a mod action is merely data that instructs clients to ignore or prefer certain other data). However, I don’t want a situation where mods become powerless because one of their accounts got compromised.
I’m not concerned here about the rules for how mods are added or removed, just the technical implementation. It’s easy enough to require a majority for decisions like that.
There has to be a way to establish with certainty that a user taking mod actions is actually a mod. The fact that you can revert changes in a git repo doesn’t make it ok for people to commit without permission, and mod actions are the same. Just allowing unauthorized users to perform mod actions would allow them to fuck up communities faster than the real mods could undo the damage.
I prefer it to have multiple mods, ideally a majority. That way, you can’t have one mod “go rogue” and add a bunch of alts or whatever, which also means a mod account getting compromised can’t “go rogue.”
I’m less concerned about mod actions like deleting posts, banning users, etc, since mod actions should always be able to be rolled back since most decentralized systems use immutable data (so a mod action is merely data that instructs clients to ignore or prefer certain other data). However, I don’t want a situation where mods become powerless because one of their accounts got compromised.
I’m not concerned here about the rules for how mods are added or removed, just the technical implementation. It’s easy enough to require a majority for decisions like that.
There has to be a way to establish with certainty that a user taking mod actions is actually a mod. The fact that you can revert changes in a git repo doesn’t make it ok for people to commit without permission, and mod actions are the same. Just allowing unauthorized users to perform mod actions would allow them to fuck up communities faster than the real mods could undo the damage.