Moderation Systems

As part of trying to find material for this blog, I go on a lot of chat sites, forums, imageboards, ect. This has exposed me a a wide variety of moderation systems, some good, some bad, and some downright fucking awful. But by far, the stupidest system I have ever seen so far the current system of ChatRoulette. The creator of ChatRoulette decided that in order to get rid of all the half-wits fapping on there, he would put the moderation in the hands of the users in the form of a "vote" function, along with some other stupid requirements. Here's how it works

First you have to create an account. New for Chatroulette, but it's a step in the right direction, and not too annoying to do. Second, you have to have at least 3 ten minute long conversation before you can turn on your camera. I imagine this is the point where people say "okay fuck this I'm going to Omegle". Not me. I was determined, I was on a mission to meet some stupid people so I could blog about them. Two hours later, I was visibly pissing people off with caustic sarcasm and scathing insults. However, that proved to be my downfall. The third feature ChatRoulette implemented was a little vote instead of the "next" button. There are two buttons, above the buttons it says "Should this person be allowed to use CR?", and the buttons themselves say "Yes" and "No". If your yes/no votes reach a certain ratio, your account has its "registration declined" and you have to make a new one, therefore having to go through the entire "3 ten minute video" process again.

Lets take a little bit of a closer look at this. This guy is putting the moderation in the hands of the users. The shallow, moronic, biased users. That means the moderation  system is biased against people with ugly faces, annoying personalities, and assholes. At least the last one makes sense to try and ban, but the first two don't. The site now has a forum for complaints exactly for situations like these, but you have to be a registered user to post on the forum. So if you get railed by this biased system, you're not allowed to try and fix it either. You'd have to go through all the extra trouble of making a new account and getting it registered, just because you're ugly.

Speaking of moderating systems, I've had the idea for a moderating system that would create a community similar to that of 4chan /b/, minus the morons. Here's how it would work. You have a chat website, there's one room where all of the anons and first timers would go; the main room. There are no word censors, and people are allowed to talk about anything they want, sex, politics, whatever. The moderators would watch the main room for two reasons; kick or ban spammers or bots, and to choose the smartest people in the room to get actual accounts. People with actual accounts would have access to the rest of the rooms where they would be again, no censors, no restrictions, no nothing. This would (hopefully) result in a community of intelligent, similar people, and create enough of a hivemind to create a culture similar to 4chan /b/, minus the stupidity. It probably has some flaws I've overlooked, but it's an idea, and I would like to see how it would work out.