chapotraphouse

What we should do is vote once a year for a representative to represent us, and then let them single handedly choose a council to make rules and decisions. That council then serves for life and can never be removed. It's up to each yearly representative to determine if they want to add to the council though. They get to replace members of the council if those members leave too. The council can make any decisions they want about anything ever with zero oversight but it's okay because every year we get to vote once on who chooses members of the council so if we don't like what the council is doing we can just vote for a different leader and they can maybe add someone to the council. Or we can hope the bad people on the council quit or die.

Anyway I'm told this is the best system of democracy ever so it's definitely what we should do here at The United Federations of Hexbears

But how can we make Hexbear more authoritarian? 

I suggest we model it after the late Roman republic when organized mob violence against your political opponents was commonplace

We should pick admins and mods randomly from the users every six months, if you are picked you have to serve

I think lemmy should implement built in polls so we can vooooooooote

on what? anything and everything, all day. nothing more democratic than that

honestly I'd like to see temp bans employed more. I don't know why it's either perma or nothing.

I say we have a lottery, one lucky user every month wins and the rest of beat them with stones as tribute to the Lathe

"ban everyone" - Divine

I don't like people even joking about this.

Banned? Contact your local soviet to appeal

@Stoatmilk@hexbear.net

Ban me daddy 

the people who do the work get the say. posters don't work -- the people running the site do. letting random people vote on stuff is deeply counterproductive and would just lead to constant squabbles with wreckers. no thank you.

If you stop me from posting I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.

Some more direct le voat system would be a direct invitation to game such a system with liberals, scratched and unscratched alike, making an avalanche of not-an-alt alt accounts. 

In seriousness, (at least) one person needs to hold the keys to the castle. This is just a consequence of how digital infrastructure operates..

On one hand, there are the digital keys - the SSH key to log into the server and assorted secrets for various services. These are needed to log in to the server and do maintainence - update the software, run database migrations, produce and safekeep backups, etc. This person has total control. This responsibility can be vested in more than one person, but then each of those people have total control, including the ability to remove access from other admins.

On the other hand, there are the physical keys. The website runs on a server somewhere. This server is in someone's physical custody. Whether it is an ISP, a server colocation facility, or under the admin's bed, that person also has total control.

We could vote for who has the keys, but all it takes to ruin us is one  to get in.

This is why i sometimes come back  my fucking sides

running it democratically is kinda nonsensical, ultimately whoever wants to put effort into maintaining the community makes the rules. process to get on to modding is pretty easy, if you want more say then you should put in more effort.

you cant run a site like its a political entity. its all on volunteer basis. the only thing you can really do is make sure you prune mod lists whenever someone does something reactionary (or make sure mod spots are only given to long time users). if this were run by a party, then you could easily manage the site through bylaws, but that isnt how things work here, it isnt tied to meatspace.

Maybe we could incorporate technology in a unique way. Remember "Twitch Plays Pokemon"? Well what about "Twitch Moderates Hexbear"?

I feel like this thread highlights the inherent difficulty of governance without the added constraint of money.

You can always just start your own instance. The technical aspects shouldn't be hard if you just want a clone of hexbear. Most of the effort goes towards moderation but I guess "democracy" would make that a distributed task.