Comment by jacquesm
5 days ago
I've seen a lot of shady moderation on reddit and it's one reason I quit using it. There is the obvious brigading, mods on powertrips and but also massive probably paid astro turfing campaigns. Reddit has gone downhill substantially in the last five years. HN is not immune either, but at least we dont' have a 'mods on powertrips' problem, in fact the opposite.
I quit Reddit too. The posts and comments here are definitely much higher quality but the constant changing of titles by mods here drives me insane.
reddit has recently allowed users to hide their posts and comments from the profile, which has made astro-turfing a lot harder to detect
I've also just been using reddit for far too long. It's gotten to the point where I sometimes feel like I've seen all of the internet, because I recognize way too many videos/posts/stories/cool facts/etc as ones I have seen before.
It's been going on since forever and I find it insane that they still haven't done anything to curb it
There could just be an appeals system and if one moderator messes up a high enough percentage of the time, they get the boot.
Agreed, "mods" binging on their little power is a problem everywhere in society, and in Reddit it's made even worse by the fact they are hiding behind their screen