Oddbean

@djsumdog IMO, your post is lacking one major factor with why Reddit went the way it did: the Powermod problem. Essentially Reddit is controlled by a cabal of far-left moderators who By the time you had your posts wiped and moderation scripts were rolled out, people on the site had begun to find out that in one case, six moderators were had control over 118 of the top 500 subreddits on the site. All of the issues you described were a side effect of this, and the cabals both had public faces (shitredditsays/SRS and later AgainstHateSubreddits/AHS) and private Discord servers, of which leaks would get posted to rdrama.net, KF, and more places. This is even confirmed in a business insider article talking about the life of a catlady mod on Reddit. They genuinely are moderators on Reddit because they have no power in the real world, but online they can roll out scripts to remove the CHUDS. This is also what made the API wars interesting but explains why they caved in the end; see these people would rather die than give up the one thing they live for (being a moderator on the internet and doing it for free). It gives them a power rush, and they will kill themselves on stream rather than stop being a moderator. They were genuinely scared when Reddit began to remove mods rather than cave to their API demands. https://media.clubcyberia.co/pleroma/e71716e010a98dd07a9c97c50bb68814db5258d7d072bb073e49296297314ff1.png https://media.clubcyberia.co/pleroma/f75d6ddff750bbc2bb3734a42c2b2150dc33ada4c16e820ae3dc8b35fb3cb8f5.jpg https://media.clubcyberia.co/pleroma/6537e82d52343b3fe626e1f8d0be973eebd47f51676bb1bd4021a4a640304167.jpg https://media.clubcyberia.co/pleroma/2d1d02d6d7a9bdde7cb7a7737f513baa5f0822ccc0416d65472a5f8468df7191.webp https://media.clubcyberia.co/pleroma/27572b977dea24b92d7199666a262d74a92dabcabb5fe6b5b1b8b0b47ddc65ac.jpg