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by i_like_apis 1220 days ago
I find Reddit mods are particularly power crazy. Most of them seem to be doing it for power rather than for love of the content of their sub. There is so much personal bias and posts removed for personal reasons, or just to flex. I’m not speculating on the reason, but it’s definitely like that.
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sebstefan 1220 days ago
But if you pause for a minute, can you think of a place on the internet where there isn't a systemic problem with mods being power crazy?

Genuine question!

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seydor 1220 days ago
yes, many. Subreddits are sticky and it s almost impossible for someone to start competing with the medium-to-big ones , because the 'obvious' names are taken . This is especially true for countries / cities / brand names. As long as the mods are not completely crazy, there is only one word for 'politics' or 'europe', and users will not go to a new sub just because the mods are better.

If they were individual internet forums, people would just leave instead. Reddit acts as big single-sign-on that heavily biases users towards its existing subreddits. The fact that reddit admins still allow a small group of people to moderate hundreds of subreddits for decade+ is proof of that. If they cared, they would mandatorily recycle them

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ChickenNugger 1219 days ago
4chan? I'm not sure they do anything but remove child porn based on the fact that I've never seen it there, thankfully. Maybe Gab or communities.win? I don't use those two enough to know. Twitter post musk? But even there I've seen people complain. It's a shame because reddit used to literally advertise being a free speech platform.
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sebstefan 1219 days ago
Oddly enough the only one I could think of as well was 4chan.
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lmm 1219 days ago
4chan, because they have the right attitude towards mods and jannies.
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qball 1219 days ago
>Most of them seem to be doing it for power rather than for love of the content of their sub.

In any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people.

First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization.

Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself.

It is the Iron Law of Bureaucracy that the second group becomes more powerful than the first- and this is why the simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies. Because, by that law, it is.

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