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Individually selected moderators may indeed be a good idea, as long as those moderators are trustworthy.
However, the whole notion of rating a comment as "offtopic" doesn't really appeal to me <b>unless the user is not punished</b>. Karma on Slashdot is silly. I wouldn't feel right moderating an offtopic post down only because it was offtopic, even if it were well constructed and fit in with the current discussion in its containing thread.
And where does one draw the line of offtopic? Are we still talking about rating threads here? Or are we down to moderating specific posts? Where is the line drawn?
Maybe it's best to leave the system as it is.
As far as setting a depth to 3 or whatever, that sounds fine to me - I wouldn't at all mind having a "weblogs" section and then myself under that. I also wouldn't mind having something like this:
User-Hosted Forums
|- dhamsaic
| |-weblog
| |-Quote Of The Day
|- sycamore
Where each user can have multiple forums under their control. I was thinking about adding a "Quote of the Day" thread to my forum, but it really works better as its own forum, much like IotD does. I really don't need to have separate forums under "User Hosted Forums" - what should be the best way to accomplish this? Another forum under "Main" that's moderated by dhamsaic himself? Or changing the way the Cellar works?
There's really a lot of thinking that needs to be done before we settle on any change. I'd like to hear ideas on what I've posted here.
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