I’ve conveyed an idea to the team on different channels, but also want to disclose for more general scrutiny by the interested audience. It looks like:
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make a moderation entry log each time the team changes (just as for the ban log) and state the current team composition. → This allows the general public to audit diversity of opinions within the Mod Team and to better assess how much of their trust each individual contributor places into the people involved. It also allows to find tendencies and correlations and thus harden or dismantle an initial suspicion about bias (which I can’t quite get rid of based on the overall context).
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Slightly expand on the ban context, without creating too much overhead that would be otherwise unreasonable to the team. Limit to 200 chars each of the following mandatory log contents:
- Accusation (anonymous)
- Counterpledge (by the accused)
- Decision (by the mod team)
The latter is very cheap to implement and not an unreasonable process clarification but very effective in preventing power abuse (or even only suspected power abuse), which the current model is prone to.