[pbae]

Reddit should allow shadow moderation teams to fork a subreddit--easily findable on the subreddit's page rather than through the grapevine about the alt's existence, which users can opt into--to address the issue of name squatting and overbearing moderation. If a critical mass of users vote with their feet, they can flip the subreddit. It would also let users be aware of what the issue in contention are and choose what they want to read, whereas currently the mod teams are pretty quick to squelch all dissent so that their captive audience isn't even aware of the drama.

[oska]

I've had thoughts along similar lines. My idea was that users should have the ability to select their favoured mod team from a range of teams. So all moderating the same namespace but swapping out different mod teams would give you a different view of the content in that namespace.