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> Again, the fact that power user mods exist ruins that claim for you.

It's a far jump from "users who moderate to multiple subreddits" to "have power over most of the site". And if they mod one or multiple subreddits doesn't have much of an impact on other subs they are not involved with.

> Also, the fact that this power tripping seems to be a norm across much of the site now also shows this is not the case.

doesn't mesh with what I'm seeing, so "citation needed" on it being the norm.