Re: Converting Bitcointalk to a decentralized Forum (Non-technical explanation)
Which you'd basically have a voting system for users to vote on users that should be banned, which sounds absolutely brilliant in practice. However, when it comes to reality, it'll be a shower of shit (for a lack of a better term). Considering how many disagreements users generally have on a forum, mix that in when there's financial gain to be made, you'd have a disaster in the making.
That's probably why it never really took off. If the users of this forum would switch to a decentralized forum, I thought to include most of the current Moderators as Moderators. I would assume most of the Moderators would include the users who made good Reports, and it would be pretty good from there.Quote
For example, if you had someone that is in a high paying campaign, they could be subject to report abuse by using alt accounts. At least, with a centralised figure you have some sort of quality control. That also eliminates alt accounts abusing the moderation system.
The alt accounts won't have a say in this, just like non-DT users are quite meaningless to the Trust system now.Quote
However, when it comes to relying on the community to moderate it'll likely be misused more than it's used for legitimate reasons.
Maybe. Or a user could choose not to follow the moderation coming from abusers and still see the posts.Now that I think about it: if different users all see different posts in a thread because they have different moderation-
settings, the thread can become messy. I'm also unsure how new users would have to decide who's moderation to follow.
Someone should build it to answer all those questions
