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Fascinating Ostrom-inspired framing for online community governance, replacing monolithic permissions (“admins can hide threads”) with richer policies that can be proposed & evolved by the community (eg “threads reported by 10 long-term users are hidden until a jury can vote...”)

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Amy X Zhang

@amyxzh

· Aug 17, 2020

Ever notice how most community software encodes an admin/mod model? What about other models, like democracy? What if communities could *build for themselves* the governance that suits them? Presenting our #uist2020 paper on "PolicyKit: Building Governance in Online Communities"!

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’s group consistently does some of my favorite work in academic HCI; definitely follow their work if you’re not already!)

Andy Matuschak

@andy_matuschak

One other thing I dig about this paper is that it’s prototyped on top of existing platforms (Reddit, Slack) via APIs. Many researchers would have made a freestanding demo social network instead: it would be easier in various ways. But it would be disconnected from serious use.

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Updating Reddit’s upvote/downvote process would be so helpful. The process feels like it was cutting edge 10 years ago, and has begun showing its age.