Without mods and rules, anyone is free to write a script that downvotes every post of another user below the threshold where it gets removed.
So everyone has the power to silence everyone else. This is the opposite of anarchy. It’s a nuclear war.
You wouldn’t end up with a community that regulates itself. You’d end up in a place where either the most vile users push through their own views, one entirely controlled by bots, or one that’s completely disfunctional due to trolling.
Everyone who doesn’t abuse the system leaves, and the abusers then get bored for a lack of victims, leaving behind a dead space.
I wouldn’t say no rules. I would say no hierarchy of users. I do think your assessment of what would happen is accurate. I’m pretty sure that’s how all anarchic systems evolve tbh
Without mods and rules, anyone is free to write a script that downvotes every post of another user below the threshold where it gets removed.
So everyone has the power to silence everyone else. This is the opposite of anarchy. It’s a nuclear war.
You wouldn’t end up with a community that regulates itself. You’d end up in a place where either the most vile users push through their own views, one entirely controlled by bots, or one that’s completely disfunctional due to trolling.
Everyone who doesn’t abuse the system leaves, and the abusers then get bored for a lack of victims, leaving behind a dead space.
I wouldn’t say no rules. I would say no hierarchy of users. I do think your assessment of what would happen is accurate. I’m pretty sure that’s how all anarchic systems evolve tbh