Cos then he'd have to deal with community moderators
Who is he going to trust to do that? What about all the other problems that can entail, as well?
Not really
You set up a team of maybe 3 to be in charge, who vote on their replacements. Maybe they delegate, maybe that's not necessary here though.
That's how tgstation handled their moderation and coding teams and they mostly turned out okay. And the "guy in charge" in that case was almost always busy with real life. And the players needed frequent moderation.
It's not rocket science, it's actually super weird to have just one moderator. Much less one with a full time job...
The only benefit to this system is that I feel guilty about posting anything controversial, because I may be delaying the next version of DF.
I can say with confidence that there is nobody in this community who should be given the power to moderate it.
Maybe pick a few people who seem mostly level-headed, keep their identities a secret, and ban them if they abuse their power?
Also limiting powers to temp-mutes and thread locking would be a good idea.
Yeah see, then you'd just swap from modding forum to modding mods
Also 99% certain that this would turn into reddit where everyone agrees with one another because the ones who didn't were disappeared and newcomers overcompensate to fit in
Uh
This almost IS that latter thing, and it's because when someone posts a strong dissenting opinion, there's a good chance the discussion gets heated and deleted. At which point people decide "oh it's that kind of community" and leave.
With some actual personhours it's possible to run an actual warning/ban system instead of the "Awaken the sleeping god-developer, get deleted or banned" nonsense.
Handling an out of control moderator is a lot easier than doing it by hand, this is kinda ridiculous to be honest :/
Also reddit has echochamber subreddits, yeah, those are the ones you shouldn't visit. Why would you visit those. Go to the ones that aren't dumb.