It's unfortunate but there are a ton of shitbag people out there whose method of using the Internet is to be as shitty as they can be. Whether it's fascism, abuse, sexism, racism, harassment, or just being the kind of person nobody wants to be around, these are real-life humans who've always been around and volunteer moderators/admins have always had to deal with. It's as old as Usenet and if you've ever done in-person community management you know that it's just a feature of our society in general. (People are just a little more wary of being yelled at and punched in person though.)

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Downvotes and user moderation is more than enough. Giving unlimited power of content manipulation to a secret cabal of powerusers is not a solution, it's a dictatorship worse than whatever the bad users could muster.

Any such system, can burn for all I care. I am so, so fed up with the control freaks. who think they're better than everyone.

Make every user a moderator, and make their moderation public and proportionnate with their status as one of the users.

Then other user content discovery algorithm will just not pick the comment with 30 downvotes and 10 user blocks. Moderators are completely superfluous and in fact destroy the system as they plainly are doing to lemmy right now.

I don't care to have do my part downvoting a nazi once in a while. Much better that than to be the powerless victim of power tripping moderators.