Experimental thought, but something I want to do in near future.
Basically admins and mods are selected sortitionally( randomly) from people who apply.
All admins and mods have fixed term limits.
Existence of Mod or Admin trials where a public chat(court) decides consequences for their actions, if they misbehave, could lead to
Ever since I learnt about the sortition system, I was incredibly curious how it would work irl, hence this idea.
Look, I am not going to claim this is a solution to anything, till ones actually up and running I think it’s hard to say which direction it will go. But still, I want your opinion on it.
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By making mod duty easy for them, have small term limits, and in those term limits they only have to work for 4/3 days a week. Term could be just few weeks. Also get lot more mods and give them specific time slots beyond which they are vastly not needed unless an emergency.
It’s a fun idea and there’s similar ideas, but in the end, someone always has to be in the contract of the server provider or host the infrastructure at home and is basically the admin overlord. That person is also liable if illegal stuff shows up.
I’m trying to think how you could set up a charter, like through a corporation. Or partnership, might be a way to legally rotate who holds the liability. Basically, rotate the C suite and board of directors every time the effective ownership/control of the instance changes. Probably have to do some filings, but since it’s not publicly traded those filings just need to be with your accountant?
NOTE I am two vodkas and three joints deep this is probably bad advice
No I think that’s the best way to do it. Strongly depends on the country you’re in, what kind of legal constructs it allows, but having some organization that’s in the contract instead of some person is the way to go. That org can then handle votings etc (can even use the instance for that).
Noooo high me is supposed to give bad advice I have trained him that way. I woke up and am sober (wrll, for me) and am so disappointed in him
Hinges on the fact that server is run on donations, so admin has an incentive to not run the server against the idea.
I know, the hosters sanity and goodwill is still doing a lot of heavy lifting. I must think through this better.
I think that’s why wording mentions friends not a public service