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>>prawn+(OP)
For those of us who wondered what form of governance Twitter 2.0 will have, I think it's now safe to say it won't be based on any particular set of rules, principles or ethics. It will be totalitarian -- whatever Elon feels like at any particular moment in time.

>>i_have+o9
I saw Richard Kyanka do this once before.

>>riffic+8b
Ended well for him too, didn't it?

>>Monkey+ug
A single strong moderator, or even a team of mods and admins with loosely coherent policies, can work fine.

I think the largest community where I've seen this kind of autocracy go well is Fark -- people are generally reasonable, for whatever reason the trolls do not do as much boundary-pushing and rules-lawyering as on other sites, and it's generally a calm and funny place to hang out. Drew Curtis is just, like, a nice normal person.