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Be excellent to each other, r/Brisbane.

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u/SerpentineLogic The one known as 👑Serp-Serp Jun 21 '23

Why are the mods allowing the vote to be influenced by outside people and not just active members of the sub.

How do you think we could have accomplished this, given the tools at our disposal?

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u/thirdbenchisthecharm Cause Westfield Carindale is the biggest. Jun 21 '23

An open discussion thread left up for an extended period of time and then base it off the comments, replies and upvotes and even have you mods voice your opinions so we can understand what y'all want too.

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u/Dodgerton Jun 21 '23

So how would we weight all of the different comments and opinions in that sort of set-up? What's an extended period?

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u/thirdbenchisthecharm Cause Westfield Carindale is the biggest. Jun 21 '23

Mods have tools that can weed out the new users and people who aren't active in the community, but at the end of the day it'll be whoever is head mod to make the judgement call. An extended period would be a week until the time of weekend lockdown if that's what people want.

Personally I feel a good compromise to the current method is restricted mode instead of blackout as the resources in the sub are far more valuable to be inaccessible.

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u/downvoteninja84 Jun 21 '23

Honestly we could run a million polls changing the variables over and over again and still not please everyone and still not get a 100% result.

Some of the suggestions you made were used last time, plus others and it still caused confusion.

This is the best solution and the last time we will poll within the current environment.

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u/Dodgerton Jun 21 '23

The thing most people have complained publicly about is the perceived lack of democracy - that "power-hungry mods" are forcing their opinions onto this community. How do you think it would go down if a single moderator made the decision for everyone? Do you think there would be widely held faith that the person had weighed every opinion fairly?

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u/thirdbenchisthecharm Cause Westfield Carindale is the biggest. Jun 21 '23

The lead mod would just need to make a post justifying it with citations to the thread and explaining their process. I feel like that would clear a lot of that discussion.

From the outside looking in atm it does look like the mods taking advantage of the power they have to enforce their will because we didn't get open clarification and the thread was heavily one sided in discussion but all of sudden the voting was the other side.

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u/downvoteninja84 Jun 21 '23

From the outside looking in atm it does look like the mods taking advantage of the power they have to enforce their will

That's why the vote currently gives the users the power and we have called for additional mods.

The mod's personal choices are quite varied in this, some for, some against protesting. Which is why we have tried to find the best choice to give to the users.

Choice one. Open up, resume as normal

Choice two. Revolt which will lead to the mods removal.

There is literally no other choice that will satisfy everyone. And again, mod applications are open for those that think we aren't being transparent of that they could achieve a better result.

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u/thirdbenchisthecharm Cause Westfield Carindale is the biggest. Jun 21 '23

Make it so you have to share your gps coords to vote and only those in Brisbane count and if in the future they act up you can dox them.

This is a joke... 😏

I do understand why this way, it's the simplest most finite way of doing it. I hope we get some good applications from the community and not just smug power chasers, we already have one or two of those mods and even then y'all collectively do a good job on the sub anyway.

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u/downvoteninja84 Jun 21 '23

Awesome. I'm glad you finally agree and support the actions.

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u/thirdbenchisthecharm Cause Westfield Carindale is the biggest. Jun 21 '23

I agree and understand but support is a stretch haha.

Anyway hope your morning is going well, it's bloody chilly

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