Politically biased moderation drives echo chamber formation (for Reddit)

3 days ago (papers.ssrn.com)

The moderator is basically the equivalent of the environmental evaluator in a genetic/survival of the fittest algorithm. So of course the moderator will shape the outcome. No surprise there.

  • It’s more of a god role where sudden changes are possible to the environment that no fitness level could prepare for (e.g. a mod can decide to change history after it happened, or remove entire scenes suddenly), those violate the natural order of things to which you allude

  • It’s the opposite. Moderator is arbitrary authority to do as they please.

    Survival of fittest would be if opinions were allowed, and let the best one win.

The Seattle subreddit and a bunch of other Washington state subreddits do this and instantly ban any non-woke content.