Originally Posted by
Savions
While I do completely agree with the concerns users addressed about the risk this idea brings, I would still like to note that OP is talking about a ban for an hour. A short ban is a simple and effective punishment that yet can't be truly abused (since an hour ban is absolutely harmless). I don't think this amount of 'shoutbox-power' has such a big value that we can't trust users with it. Also, I don't think users should be manually eligible, but instead have everyone from the 'respected-user' group possess this power, since most users in that usergroup use the shoutbox often and are in my opinion trusted enough with such small amount of power.
However, in all honestly I don't think we even need more users moderating the shoutbox Most of the time there is a moderator online when such thing happens and it just happened that there wasn't one online yesterday.