Comment by derefr

Camp 2 works fine in perpetuity if the community is built as a cult of personality around a central authority figure; where the authority figure is also the moderator (or, if there are other moderators, their authority is delegated to them by the authority figure, and they can always refer arbitration back to the authority figure); where the clear rules are understood to be descriptive of the authority's decision-tree, rather than prescriptive of it — i.e. "this is how I make a decision; if I make a decision that doesn't cleanly fit this workflow, I won't be constrained by the workflow, but I will try to change the workflow such that it has a case for what I decided."