[scarlson]

I've been a redditor from the beginning, and have always agreed with the sentiment that communities should reflect their userbase.

The issue comes when in the case of /r/politics moderators do something outside what the majority sentiment is. Change comes slow, it's far easier to get a mod removed than it is to get 3 million subscribers to move to a new subreddit with a "better" moderator team.

[001sky]

But this is just political hijacking of the subreddit. I don't see why anyone at reddit should support this as a strategy.

What you will end up with is a bunch of astro-turfed sub-reddits. The greas roots will make r/_x_ popular, then some PR firm will get someone to "a "better" moderator team" so that their clients can hijack _million users.