(I haven't submitted an official rfc yet, want to see what people think)
This is inspired by Ruqqus, a now defunct Reddit alternative.
The idea is simple:
- There is a "global" or "default" community with no topic or extra rules, ~~moderated only by admins~~
- Community moderators, when they feel a post is inappropriate for their community can "kick" a post to the global community
The reasoning is as follows: a good amount, probably the majority of posts that are removed by mods, are not removed because they are inappropriate for the site as a whole, but because they are inappropriate for that specific community (off-topic, banned site, low effort, etc.). But currently the only option they have to deal with this is a full blown removal, which is quite frustrating for the poster.
This proposal would allow mods to keep curated communities without needing to do unnecessary removals.
As a bonus, this would create a default community where people can post when they're not sure where to post something. Posts can be later be crossposted into more specific communities.
I thing there's something here. I don't think that this is the solution though.
What I think is good:
What I think is bad:
We could certainly have mods for this default community too, that's not crucial to the idea.
Could you expand in where this conflicts with activitypub? I thought AP was too general to care about something like this
It is thou, and why /r/reddit.com got archived eventually since the reddit admins (mods) couldn't keep up.
Where do you pool them from?