Re: A GS democracy?
An interesting example is the very popular forum slashdot.org. While they dont have a bot moderating the forums, they have a system that takes in moderations from posters and does analysis on those rankings and the rankers and builds a pool of “good” mods, sort of managed distributed moderation.
http://www.si.umich.edu/~presnick/papers/chi04/LampeResnick.pdf