> Here is why I find it hard to believe there is a cabal of mods:
Reddit mods doing things like this is well known [1] [2]
What is really strange is how the mods will tend to infiltrate a subreddit, get mod rights, and then bring over a bunch of other mods that are already cross-modding important subs across Reddit.
This has led to weird situations where a few mods control much of Reddit's top subreddits [3]