The admins? A small group of throats to choke who would declare themselves responsible for any and all moderator actions.

Who manages the managers? A hierarchy that terminates at a single responsible party the stakeholders, the board, can control.

> A hierarchy that terminates at a single responsible party the stakeholders, the board, can control.

I think that's the organization structure that everyone complains is responsible for some of the most sociopathic behavior in the world. Or at least sociopathic behavior at the largest scale.

Human beings have no new ideas on how to organize things, and so they keep going back to the same old ideas that have been proven defective. In this case, defective in exactly the ways they claim to want to avoid. It's a little bizarre.

Of course it can. Simply have clearly stated rules for mods and the ability to report mods who violate them.

Who would apply those rules to the mods? Rules aren't magical, bolts of lightning don't shoot down from the heavens and obliterate the offending moderator. If only.

Who do you report mods to? Other mods?

There is no one to report them to.

The trouble is that people demand that the discourse remain pleasant and unobjectionable. That it drives on in a direction that they agree with. And good, human conversation can't ever do that. We have unpleasant things to discuss, and we have objections. The direction can and should be capable of changing at any time.

But because most people are cowards and children, you strive like little eusocial insects to deconstruct and destroy conversations like that. It bothers you. And the biggest and best tool for that is the moderator, some unintelligent busybody with grudges.

Until the one day of course that you yourself realize the there is something unpleasant to be said. Until the direction should be different. Until there are objections to be made. Then you get banhammered and you want to cry about the very juggernaut you helped to enable.

The confusing part is why you think that the solution could be an ever larger juggernaut? Why do you think that could ever help? How do you even propose creating it?

> Who would apply those rules to the mods?

Admins.

This isn't nearly as complicated an issue as you're trying to make it out to be.

The same folks complaining mods are tyrants will complain the admins are tyrants when they back up mod decisions.

Strict moderation is always controversial. I tend to prefer it.

The admins like it the way things are. You won't get any relief from them.

If anything, expect things to be like now, but more so. They clearly intend to increase the intensity of the policies you dislike, they just haven't figured out how to do that yet.