MetaJess

How do you make an (online) community space which doesn't have a benevolent dictator but is resistant to being flooded by trolls? Friction on entry is the obvious thing, but that has big downsides.

If you're rejecting two known solutions to a notoriously difficult problem I'm not sure what kind of replies you're expecting here

I agree, but very occasionally someone has invented something new so it's worth throwing it out there

For example, this is quite neat https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04236 

I look forward to seeing which solutions attain longevity

We can only hope. Though - different spaces will need different solutions.

Agreed! Balanced between that and not reinventing the wheel every time. Making systems is very hard, be nice to be able to tweak an off-the-shelf idea. I have a suspicion that current new solutions rely too heavily on tech and not enough on social understandings.

Tech vs social: I think this is easy to say but a bit disingenuous - really to do social tech products successfully you need to understand both. I think people underestimate how much the environment can affect how people behave.