We made some changes to the Forum Hosting system today

[MADem]

16. If hosts are hiding individual posts, we're back to the old moderator system--in this case that

would be 30 people making decisions and serving as gatekeepers. I hope that's not the case; I don't think less transparency is a good thing and I hope we aren't heading in that direction.

If entire threads are dumped because someone doesn't like a subthread, it's too easy for someone to fire up a gripe to shut down a thread.

It puts the "power" in the hands of the hosts, and turns them into moderators. More to the point, it puts the power to shut down a thread in the hands of a couple of disruptors firing up a fake fight in a sub thread.

That would suggest that our revolutionary "community moderation" system is a failure. I think it sometimes misses, but it sometimes hits the nail on the head, too. We always like to be on the "winning" side of a jury decision when we're called to judge, naturally.