[faangguyindia]

I grew a fitness subreddit to 100,000 members from 0. A fitness sub, after sometime, reddit mod team came up with list of possible moderators, I looked at them most of them were fake accounts shilling for some supplement company.

I was also offered money by supplement companies to promote supplements on our sub which I never accepted.

Unfortunately, reddit mod team is of no use, they cannot really tell who is high quality contributor vs who is getting nuked by fake accounts created by competitors/supplement companies etc...

[bjourne]

Very clear that was going on in other subreddits too. E.g., moderators in r/worldnews conspiring to promote certain views while suppressing others.

[jayGlow]

there's a cabal of power mods that control a large number of the most popular subreddits it's definitely used to push certain views on Reddit.

[SmashDan]

https://www.piratewires.com/p/the-terrorist-propaganda-to-re...

Archive link: https://archive.is/aSdCI

Here's an interesting article on just that