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Originally Posted by Halx
So, with that in mind; how do you think it will work out?
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It won't. You're using the classic definition of anarchy - that being the assumption that people can and will govern themselves properly without help from a formal government. In practice, it simply doesn't work, and we get the more modern defintion of anarchy - that being "a bunch of idiots running around shooting each other." If you set up a forum where users are allowed to ban each other, it's going to degenerate into a situation where the only one (or few) left are the people that got to the ban button first.
Even the user reputation system listed above wouldn't work. Let's say you're in the top 10% and then you delete a post you feel is trolling. 40 of the board's trolls down-rep you in retaliation and suddenly you find yourself unable to delete posts anymore.
The trouble with anarchy, on the net or in real life, is that if you have 100 people in the experiment, and 99 of them are decent people who want it to work, that 1 jackass is all it takes to send the system into chaos without a "government" to keep the jackass from effecting the rest of the population.