Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people
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#2are these the list of users who created the subs, or are these users who joined after the sub was created and then made to mods? one is fine. other is crazy.
funny angle is: even if the usernames were different, we wouldn't know whether those are same persons or indeed different persons.
reddit is certainly a very biased / skewed place with respect to "moderation"
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#3Also 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
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#4On the face of it seems strange why anyone would want to moderate popular subreddits, just seems like a lot of unpaid mundane and never ending work.
Younger me might of been excited to do it from the perceived status perhaps.
I do wonder how many off-site deals are done with moderators and third parties. There’s a lot of traffic these people are able to steward and influence I imagine.
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#5Same 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.
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#7On the face of it seems strange why anyone would want to moderate popular subreddits, just seems like a lot of unpaid mundane and never ending work. Younger me might of been excited to do it from the perceived status perhaps. I do wonder how many off-site deals are done with moderators and third parties. There’s a lot of traffic these people are able to steward and influence I imagine.
Some see "internet points" as "payment".
But are you sure they aren't paid, ie employed by Reddit? Would totally make sense to either hide an army of moderating "grunts" behind a single user, or moderating bots. Reddit is large, lots to moderate.
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#8I wish there were more transparency in who the moderators of news and political subs, what their day jobs are and who pays them.
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#9On the face of it seems strange why anyone would want to moderate popular subreddits, just seems like a lot of unpaid mundane and never ending work. Younger me might of been excited to do it from the perceived status perhaps. I do wonder how many off-site deals are done with moderators and third parties. There’s a lot of traffic these people are able to steward and influence I imagine.
I'm convinced the political subs are run by people employed by the two large US political groups
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#10On the face of it seems strange why anyone would want to moderate popular subreddits, just seems like a lot of unpaid mundane and never ending work. Younger me might of been excited to do it from the perceived status perhaps. I do wonder how many off-site deals are done with moderators and third parties. There’s a lot of traffic these people are able to steward and influence I imagine.
Absolutely well said about the stewarding traffic and influence. For eg mods of country level subs like eg r/India are known to be super overtly biased towards one side and the mods known to be siding with India's archenemy Pakistan. Same collusion is seen on India-relates news in r/Worldnews sub . It is insane levels of so called moderation.