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Re: Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people

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Post by UncleSlacky »

(In)famously, the account widely believed to belong to Ghislaine Maxwell is a moderator of several major subs:

https://www.reddit.com/user/maxwellhill

(moderator of r/worldnews, r/environment, r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut, r/cyberlaws, r/enviroaction and r/greed)

Re: Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people

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Post by cdstyh »

UncleSlacky wrote: post #11

(In)famously, the account widely believed to belong to Ghislaine Maxwell is a moderator of several major subs: https://www.reddit.com/user/maxwellhill (moderator of r/worldnews, r/environment, r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut, r/cyberlaws, r/enviroaction and r/greed)

If you were to run covert intelligence operations, you would want to embed yourself in the all forms of the media so you can suppress any stories before they come out.

Re: Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people

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Post by krono »

There's a network of Dutch subreddits, 99% of which are managed by the same clique of mods.

Recently I noticed comments I had posted in those subs over the last few months had completely been ignored.

It turns out I have been shadowbanned, and not just on the primary /r/thenetherlands sub, but on every single one of the communities they manage.

There is no apparent reason for them to have done this to me. My messages to the modteam are being ignored and Reddit support won't help because "moderators are free to run their communities as they see fit".

I have been locked out of engaging with the communities I was most interested and active in, for no apparent reason and likely forever.

And this is just one of many reasons for why having so few moderators control so many communities, is such a bad thing. Allowing them to operate without oversight or accountability is not helping the situation either.

Re: Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people

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Post by huibf »

I am convinced that moderating the top subreddits is a very mentally taxing job, not to mention the amount of time that must be spent. Someone who does that kind of work for free is either paid by someone or mentally unbalanced. Neither option seems good for the community.

Re: Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people

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Post by klausjensen »

UncleSlacky wrote: post #11

(In)famously, the account widely believed to belong to Ghislaine Maxwell is a moderator of several major subs: https://www.reddit.com/user/maxwellhill (moderator of r/worldnews, r/environment, r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut, r/cyberlaws, r/enviroaction and r/greed)

I didn't recognize the name, so I looked it up (so you don't have to).

"Ghislaine Maxwell...known for her association with financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghislaine_Maxwell

Re: Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people

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Post by asutekku »

deorder wrote: post #5

Same with the coronavirus related subs last year: https://i.4pcdn.org/pol/1582202873483.jpg It was discovered and some of the mods removed themselves. Honestly I just think they go by another name.

That screenshot is from /pol/ so I'm curious if the complaints about "censorship" were that people couldn't call it a china flu.

Re: Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people

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Post by qmmmur »

ddalex wrote: post #3

Also see https://old.reddit.com/r/The_Cabal/ I also filter, using RES, all posters and commenters with over 100k karma, and it's like taking a trip back in time when the internet wasn't tuned to inane content and advertisers

Nice to see the usual suspects on The Cabal. People who believe ivermectin is some kind of miracle covid drug (even the manufacturers say its ineffective) and those who deny COVID even exists. Quality people.

https://ebm.bmj.com/content/early/2021/05/26/bmjebm-2021-111...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02081-w

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