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Step 1: open the sub.
Step 2: make every member a moderator.
Step 3: watch the world burn.
One subreddit did this IIRC
One time i think r/darkhumor did a while ago like make random people mods (or is it r/darkjokes ??) and... yea lol
/r/PoliticalHumor did.
They couldn't actually before real mod status to everyone. What they did was create an AutoMod script that would automatically take mod actions based on comments and upvotes.
Can't be done unfortunately. There's a limit to how many pending moderator invites there can be. r/politicalhumor did the next best thing though.
What did they do?
They have a bot running that listens for certain commands in comments, so any user can lock a thread or do a bunch of different stuff just like a mod by commenting
That's beautiful
Some of the actions are collectivized, requiring certain up/downvote totals on comments on posts or threads.
Back in the day a friend of mine ran a small forum for proto-shitposting where everyone was a moderator.
It went as well as you'd expect.
Am absolutely glorious dumpster fire?