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Re:What Reddit Got Wrong by silisili on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @01:51PM (#36329723)
Oh, I completely agree that some moderation is needed, make no mistake about that. Just agreeing mainly with the point that most modding on Reddit is a power play, not altruism.
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Re:What Reddit Got Wrong by Goronmon on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @02:03PM (#36329949)
Just agreeing mainly with the point that most modding on Reddit is a power play, not altruism.

Sure, but modding is something you don't need...until you absolutely do. Just takes one person who wants to spam porn/gore/etc to a subreddit/forum/etc and without a human able to ban/limit those actions, it's trivial to takeover a smaller community.

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Re:What Reddit Got Wrong by dymk on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @02:02PM (#36329923)
This is a very simplistic take about thousands of people who mod thousands of subs for, presumably, more reasons than you could possibly enumerate
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