Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge

Re:Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod... by cimov on Monday September 04, 2023 @09:05AM (#37380109)

> The Challenor mess should never have happened, but at least the person was fired by Reddit.

I'm amazed he was hired in the first place, they must not have bothered to do any background checks at all.

I think it revealed a lot ideologically about how Reddit operates, in particular this likely explains some of the more controversial subreddit bans in recent years.

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Re:Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod... by TMWNN on Monday September 04, 2023 @09:23AM (#37380228)

> I think it revealed a lot ideologically about how Reddit operates, in particular this likely explains some of the more controversial subreddit bans in recent years.

I have no doubt that there are hundreds of Challenors who are "working" as Reddit mods. "Doreen", the /r/antiwork head mod who got embarrassed on national television, <https://mashable.com/article/antiwork-subreddit-fox-news-int...> is merely a famous example.

Similarly, back when the SCP-2721 <https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/protected:scp-2721> controversy <https://np.reddit.com/r/SCP/comments/8ubmjp/so_they_dissable...> occurred, wiki mod Decibelles stated that a majority of (I think one dozen) SCP mods (including Decibelles), is transvestite. A majority!

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