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Re:Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet by gthtjtkt on Monday March 12, 2018 @04:23PM (#16571213)
Reddit and HN are both missing two key ingredients on the moderation side: Transparency and accountability.

There's nobody watching the watchmen, essentially. That leads to a lot of frustration, anger, mistrust, and abuse.

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Re:Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet by paulmd on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @05:51AM (#16574819)
In particular, there is no guarantee that moderators are any good. Whoever registered a subreddit first "owns" it and moderates it themselves/chooses additional moderators. That's it.

This means there was a "gold rush" in the early days and if some shitter is sitting on prime real estate (like brand names of products) there's nothing you can do about it. If they decide to close the subreddit by making it private, nothing you can do about it. If they go inactive and are still squatting on prime digital real-estate, nothing you can do about it... if they later get hacked but are still inactive, doubly nothing you can do about it.

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