[reduce]

Wow, didn't expect this. The original founding team of Reddit were awesome.

1) Personally responded to feedback emails.

2) Actually cared about sensible moderation, instead of the terrible moderation practices that have taken over in recent years. Examples of reddit's recent problems: certain subreddit moderators perpetrating massive multi-million dollar scams by banning people who warned about scamming businesses. Moderators spamlisting competing photo sharing websites so that their own sites can get more traffic. All kinds of shady non-transparent moderator actions. I doubt these would have happened under the original founders' watch!

3) Generally seemed like nice guys. Too rare.

Hoping for great things!

[kn0thing]

Aww, thanks. Responding to each and every feedback email was something Steve + I took very very seriously. If only we'd had Front back then ;)

https://frontapp.com/

[UweSchmidt]

regarding 2), sounds interesting. Got any more information on that?

Surely, if you are objective and just present facts, this can be discussed here? What multi-million dollar scams are going on on reddit?

[minimaxir]

There were a few Bitcoin/dogecoin scams, unsurprisingly.

Two incidents I remember are a) /r/hearthstone, where a moderator who owned a fansite killed links to other fansites and b) a moderator of /r/tumblrinaction posted a link to a MLM on the top bar.

[jtbigwoo]

Don't forget when it was revealed that a moderator on /r/adviceanimals also owned quickmeme.com. He apparently ran bots that downvoted any non-quickmeme images and upvoted quickmeme images.

[forgottenpass]

He could be talking about Quickmeme?

Here is a terrible overview from a quick google search: http://www.themarysue.com/reddit-bans-quickmeme/