Re:'Coup Attempt' of Reddit's Wallstreetbets Forum Is Averted
by neuronic on Friday February 05, 2021 @02:00PM
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Reddit "steps" if and only if there is a marketing disadvantge or possibilties of judicial actions.
Reddit never had any problems hosting white supremacists, pedophiles, psychopaths and criminals as long as news networks or authorities didn't get involved.
User count is more important than morality, ethics, humanity or moderation. Reddit also tends to casually lie about this. The creepy smiling Smoo says it all.
They host the website and have the user base.
And moderators create subreddits which they control.
The web comic xkcd's subreddit had a holocaust denier as the top mod. In 2014.
Reddit didn't step in even though the comic's creator didn't like it. And other mods and the community asked for it.
They were only removed once they were inactive for two months.
Summary I found: https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/reddit-xkcd-moderator-socce...