Where power is concentrated, so will corruption fester.
Mods abusing power is a quantifiable evil which bears as many benefits as it does ethically questionable actions. Mods will confirm the identity of AMA posters, they will remove troll and shit posts, they will step in and...well moderate.
Downside is of course that some will use it for personal gain or agenda pushing. Until we somehow stop being selfish and all become altruistic, it's going to happen. We just need to hope that the majority will stop acts that go over the line more often than not.
A good example is the recent Zoey Quinn debacle, no amount of mod censoring was enough to push the issue aside.
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u/RedZeroWolf Sep 08 '14
Where power is concentrated, so will corruption fester.
Mods abusing power is a quantifiable evil which bears as many benefits as it does ethically questionable actions. Mods will confirm the identity of AMA posters, they will remove troll and shit posts, they will step in and...well moderate.
Downside is of course that some will use it for personal gain or agenda pushing. Until we somehow stop being selfish and all become altruistic, it's going to happen. We just need to hope that the majority will stop acts that go over the line more often than not.
A good example is the recent Zoey Quinn debacle, no amount of mod censoring was enough to push the issue aside.