[BlackJack]

I read the comments and many are in this vein: "Agreed, moderators with a power complex are the worst thing about this site. Don't even care about this API crap." Never realized mods were so disliked.

I thought the blackout sent a message+got coverage, but don't like subreddits extending it without consulting their users. I use reddit about 5-10 minutes/day so I don't care either way.

[Rebelgecko]

It's possible that the comments are legit, but it's interesting how many of the comments in the Moderator Coordination subreddit are from people who hate mods have have newish accounts. Considering Reddit has edited comments critical of the CEO in the past AND that reddit is known to use fake accounts to simulate engagement, I'm a bit skeptical (the fake account thing was how reddit got it's start, but they're still doing it in 2023 to populate non-English subs with shitty machine translations of popular English threads)

[lelanthran]

> it's interesting how many of the comments in the Moderator Coordination subreddit are from people who hate mods have have newish accounts.

Well, duh.

Would you complain about a mod with your main account? A contributing factor is that people with newish accounts have newish accounts because a powertripping mod banned their oldish account.

All-in-all, having newish accounts complain about mods makes their complaints more legitimate, not less.

[hax0ron3]

People who hate mods tend to be people who value a more anonymous style of social media communication than persistent usernames and/or people have been censored so much before that they have been forced to make new accounts.

[seydor]

> Never realized mods were so disliked

That's because they ban those people left and right

People are rightly pissed at mods here, they are constant abusers of their power

[plewd]

> People are rightly pissed at mods here, they are constant abusers of their power

This is just fallacy of composition (stereotyping), just because some of them are toxic doesn't mean they all are.

It's the same type of argument as "All cops are corrupt because a few of them did something illegal".

[PrimeMcFly]

There are so many 'supermods' that control hundreds of subs, and so many that do abuse their power. Mods are definitely one of the worst things about that site.

[P_I_Staker]

Moderation on reddit is incredibly inconsistent and as bad as the users can be the mods are ALWAYS a jerkoffs. The vast majority of subs have a very "in your face" attitude to moderation, and it's clear these people really get off on the tiny bit of power they get.

Perhaps you never had an issue with them? If you really keep your nose clean there's a good chance you never encounter the mods, or rarely at least. HackerNews as always is tamer, but you still get some of those vibes.

I would also add that multiple groups are disproportionately represented. Ironically, police sympathizers are very powerful on the site. So as anti-police as reddit seems, I assure you, it's 10,000X worse. I've gotten disproportionate blowback by attacking doctors (during covid, but not about it)... this definitely happens on HN.

Reddit is incredibly biased and it's kinda gotten complicated now. It's not just a left leaning site.