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Re:Reddit raises $410M in new funding by NortySpock on Thursday August 12, 2021 @06:50PM (#28162637)
"the top 20 most upvoted comments in the subreddit within the last year, with the user having more than X posts per year in the subreddit, Y karma per post and more than 1000 characters per post, are invited to become moderators"

Only really works for the in-depth subreddits, I guess it's not going to get you far on image or other media-based subreddits...

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Re:Reddit raises $410M in new funding by tux3 on Thursday August 12, 2021 @07:08PM (#28162857)
That seems non obvious, the most upvoted comments are just as likely to be memes or jokes than in-depth research, and even if they are that may not correlate to a good mod very much at all.
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Re:Reddit raises $410M in new funding by spicybright on Thursday August 12, 2021 @07:23PM (#28163018)
You can see this in action on ANY subreddit by sorting by "Top of all time". Almost every post is either some in-joke or meme, some random brigade that happened from a sudden temporary influx of users, etc. for at least the first 10 posts.
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Re:Reddit raises $410M in new funding by deelowe on Thursday August 12, 2021 @07:10PM (#28162872)
Wouldn't this just turn reddit into a spam site?
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Re:Reddit raises $410M in new funding by pixl97 on Thursday August 12, 2021 @08:56PM (#28163946)
Do you mean it's not already?
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