> volunteer moderators

There's a conspiracy theory that they're not actually volunteers - or rather, that they're paid by outside interests to steer the conversation the way certain outside interests want it steered. I'm not necessarily convinced, but it would explain a bit.

There's another conspiracy theory about the most influential powermod for over a decade, /u/maxwellhill. The account was a mod of some of the largest subreddits out there, and regularly made posts that hit the front page. The account went completely silent on June 30, 2020, just two days before the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell.

Adding to the coincidences (account name match, date ghosted match), Ghislaine attended the Conde Naste christmas party, as reported by then-Reddit CEO Pao (https://nypost.com/2020/07/08/ex-reddit-ceo-ellen-pao-knew-g...).

Quite interesting. Never any explanation from anyone about why this most influential mod just disappeared.

You mean like how housing cost discussions here are always looking to blame zoning laws, to name one example? Pretty sure at this point that even HN has a heady dose of controlled opposition.

Hm, interesting - I hadn’t ever seen that on here, although zoning laws is the only explanation I can think of. Why do you think housing costs are so high? It can’t be a conspiracy - or if so, who are the conspirators?