My mistake, sorry. Yes, I strongly believe that what we’re now calling ‘public moderation logs’ is the next step in making systems like Reddit or Snapzu work. It’s an awkward phrase. It’s an artifact of the current Reddit, so it doesn’t convey what is actually meant by principled early advocates like /u/cojoco and the dearly departed /u/go1dfish.

What you’re getting at, I think, is that there’s a break between mods and users at large. The need that open moderation meets is meaningfully erasing that distinction. Dedicated users acting as a check on all-powerful mods, even with features built more as toys than tools, would work well. Like /u/spez is saying lately, it doesn’t have to be easy, it just has to be possible. There are aspects of this we’re not getting into, like the resolution of conflicts about curatorial decisions between mods, and between mods and users, but open moderation can be made practical, and will be an obvious advantage wherever it is implemented.

One of my favorite things about Snapzu is that the code is molten. While Reddit, which used to have a workable search function, is rusting out.