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Stacker Sheriffs
What you describe here is exactly what I was imagining yesterday while reading your post. Randomly designating the sheriffs, their downzap is slightly more powerful. You're right, literally a sheriff badge for downzapping is probably all you need. Couple more thoughts:
  • Anyone can anonymously downzap, but maybe sheriffs' are not anonymous? You'd have more power, but more accountability to the stackers to outlaw bad content.
  • I wonder if the number of active sheriffs could scale with amount of people that have "Wild West Mode" disabled? How many sheriffs should/could there be?
@carlosfandango brought a good point about the importance of sheriff anonymity, in the linked comments. We don't want anyone taking retaliatory action against downzappers.
So, while I think it would be fun to have some sheriffs strolling through town, it could get ugly very easily.
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Good point. I recently wound up in an akward situation with an account that did a good job of convincing others here that they were legitimate. We had a surreptitious little battle and I made a permanent enemy.
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