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Comment by cap11235

5 days ago

When the mods of major subs are also mods for over a hundred other subs, you have to doubt how much actual moderating they are actually doing in their holier-than-thou positions.

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xiixiii  5 days ago

It's also why expressing certain views is effectively forbidden across most of the site. These moderators have far too much control over the conversation.

harvey9  5 days ago

I think Reddit gives them some automation tools so it's not all hands on moderation.

genghisjahn  5 days ago

Is there a source for this?

  • lurk2  5 days ago

    I don’t know if you can still see them without an account but even a few years ago this was well-known and you could verify it yourself by looking at the moderator list of almost any default subreddit; we’re talking about less than a few hundred users. There was no limit to how many subreddits you could moderate for most of Reddit’s history so in the early days a few users created as many subreddits as they could. A bunch of these moderators effectively shut down Reddit over changes to the API a couple of years ago. Steve Huffman compared the system to a landed gentry:

    > “If you’re a politician or a business owner, you are accountable to your constituents. So a politician needs to be elected, and a business owner can be fired by its shareholders,” he said.

    > “And I think, on Reddit, the analogy is closer to the landed gentry: The people who get there first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.”