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Re:As internet forums die off, finding community can be hard... by stanford_labrat on Thursday November 19, 2020 @04:50PM (#25154801)
I can only speak to the one (top 10 by subscriber count) subreddit I am a "mod" in, but they also routinely engage in vote manipulation to control what their front page looks like through a more "organic" approach (edit: rather) than simple thread deletion. I'm sure this goes on in all of the major ones.

Not to mention rules are inconsistently enforced, rule breaking that aligns with moderator ideology tends to get shifted to the bottom of the priority stack.

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Re:As internet forums die off, finding community can be hard... by blhack on Thursday November 19, 2020 @05:27PM (#25155126)
Are you saying the mods of the subreddit are themselves purchasing votes from bot farms to influence the posts? Or am I not understanding you?
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Re:As internet forums die off, finding community can be hard... by stanford_labrat on Thursday November 19, 2020 @05:30PM (#25155148)
No, sorry for not clarifying. They would share links with "upvote this please" in moderator only channels to push things to the top of the subreddit. Which afaik is against reddit TOS.
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