It's so obvious. But it's going to be hard for them to come up with a real solution. A fork is the only solution i see that would fix the problem in a meaningful way.
I don't have a lot of time to keep uptodate right now, so this might not now be the case, but: the tension between your "Who is TDV" post, particularly it remaining unchallenged with flagging, and the continued upvoting for his posts, has just got to "give". Daylight could enter.
My feeling around community building is that any decentralised community must exist across several platforms: there will always be mods, or server-admins of one kind and another, or even just any self-censorship resulting from the upvote system, and independence from this could be found by using a number of different points of interaction.
It's so obvious. But it's going to be hard for them to come up with a real solution. A fork is the only solution i see that would fix the problem in a meaningful way.
I don't have a lot of time to keep uptodate right now, so this might not now be the case, but: the tension between your "Who is TDV" post, particularly it remaining unchallenged with flagging, and the continued upvoting for his posts, has just got to "give". Daylight could enter.
My feeling around community building is that any decentralised community must exist across several platforms: there will always be mods, or server-admins of one kind and another, or even just any self-censorship resulting from the upvote system, and independence from this could be found by using a number of different points of interaction.
It's a complicated set of problems.