Another idea for the first-come, first-served community name conundrum
I previously posted this:
https://digg.com/digg/IwHunGZ/community-names-shouldnt-be-first-come
And here is a good reason why Digg needs to diverge from the Reddit model of claiming community names. A user claimed and dedicated it to "News and discussion about the American Republican party". Of course, as you would expect, the community picture is a guy wearing a shirt depicting Trump as a dictator and the entire feed is just anti-Republican spittle. Now, one user and a mod group can decide who is allowed to post to the broad topic of "Republicans". Why? Because they snagged the name first. No one else can claim this name.
Therefore, another idea I had to address this problem is numbered community names such as /republicans-2098374. This is a compromise with my aforementioned idea. It allows users to create their own community under an umbrella name, each with their own moderation.
We're going to start seeing these conflicts pop up a lot. On Reddit, users of one political persuasion have claimed entire city and state names. If you get banned from those subs for having the wrong political opinion which happens a lot, you're banned for life. If you create a new Reddit account to circumvent the ban, all of your associated Reddit accounts will be banned. It's BS and Digg needs to gravitate away from that model.
I still like my linked idea better, though.
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