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I think that normal people should never be in charge of online communities.
The reasoning for this is that online communities naturally attract lowbrow sorts of people, so one can expect the majority of any online group to have shitty normie opinions. If you allow this majority to have power, they'll be able to bully anyone they dislike. The alternative is to have a gated group structure which only allows decent people, but you can expect those people to be very few and so you would have a teeny tiny group. Decent norms need to be enforced from above by a decent individual.
It's analogous to the leftist motto, "Never let liberals lead." You need to have liberals in your movement, but if they control your movement they'll fuck it up.