From what I've read in the past, the current plan is to rely entirely on the free market of zaps to raise the high quality posts above the nonsense, and NOT allow outright deletion by founders, as to not give them too much power over the content in the territory.

All good if this is the case, but when I see posts pop up that clearly don't belong in one of the territories I founded, it triggers the inner moderator inside of me, as I know the junk posts are lowering the experience of everyone visiting the territory. (Even if they have zero zaps, they're still there taking up space.)

I'd argue the "free marketization" would better apply to the founder level, not the individual level. What do I mean by that? 👇

Rather than giving the entirety of posters free reign to post anything they want, in any territory they want, regardless of relevance, with essentially no consequence, founders SHOULD have the power to delete junk posts.

Then, SN users can decide if a given founder is abusing their power too much, and leave if they so choose to (or start a new/better territory if they believe they'd be a better mod). There could also be transparency features added, such as a "deleted posts" section inside the territory, where everyone can view the posts the founder has deleted. This would make it very easy for people to tell if the founder is doing a good job keeping the territory clean, or abusing their moderation privilege.

TL;DR: I don't think paying a few sats for posts will be enough deterrence to prevent spammers to push junk all over the irrelevant territories. Rather than relying entirely on post-level zaps to separate the good posts from the bad, I believe founders should be able to delete irrelevant junk from their territories (with plenty of transparency so the crowd can closely monitor their performance if they choose to), as a method of keeping territories maximally clean and high-signal.

I believe this would be the best way to set up territory moderation in preparation for the SN scaling we're hopeful of seeing in the future.

I hope this makes sense. I drank a lot of coffee this morning and am a bit all over the place today 😂

Agree/disagree? Happy to hear all perspectives on this as we figure out how to properly balance the poster/founder power dynamic of territories.

BONUS: Here are 2 posts that recently popped up in /~AMA, which inspired this post. They have nothing to do with AMA, and their mere existence in the territory now triggers me 😂