Comment by vkou

> What's an equal concern to me is how insufficiently resilient Reddit collectively appears to be, in face of this.

It's more or less an open marketplace, with only a few high-level rules.

Why would it be resilient to these kinds of attacks? Human society as a whole isn't - if it were, I wouldn't have a job.

> A bad actor mod of a popular subreddit can persist for years, visibly, without people managing either to oust the mod, or to take down the sub's influence.

So, kind of like how bad companies persist in dominant market positions?

Bad actors put in a lot more effort to protect themselves than people with lives and jobs have to take them down. Anyone can bitch about Wells Fargo and Comcast, and 'tyrranical' mods, but at the end of the day, most people aren't switching their ISP or going to a forked community.