Downvotes and user moderation is more than enough. Giving unlimited power of content manipulation to a secret cabal of powerusers is not a solution, it's a dictatorship worse than whatever the bad users could muster.

Any such system, can burn for all I care. I am so, so fed up with the control freaks. who think they're better than everyone.

Make every user a moderator, and make their moderation public and proportionnate with their status as one of the users.

Then other user content discovery algorithm will just not pick the comment with 30 downvotes and 10 user blocks. Moderators are completely superfluous and in fact destroy the system as they plainly are doing to lemmy right now.

I don't care to have do my part downvoting a nazi once in a while. Much better that than to be the powerless victim of power tripping moderators.