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We have to assume that the majority of users will not be disruptive unless driven by the environment. Otherwise we might as well stop right there.
Assuming that it follows that such moderation without any individual in power might still be implemented by reflecting the community will through some mechanism. So voting doesn't work as long as everybody can create a million bot accounts. Maybe there is a way to prevent that. Same with other approaches. I wouldn't be surprised if somebody can come up with a technical solution for this.
Traditionally, this is done by IP, but IP spoofing is a thing.
However, choosing not to allow duplicate or bot accounts is itself an administrative decision. It’s simply preemptive moderation.
That's a reasonable assumption, however it only takes a very small number of "bad actors" to do a disproportionately large amount of damage.
But the same assumption also means that one can rely on the majority of the users to be pro-social. Thus one can lean on this majority of angels to do the moderating.