It was pretty obvious throughout the campaign that mods were constantly battling a tsunami of political spam from all sides. I suspect you don't have to dig ve

It was pretty obvious throughout the campaign that mods were constantly battling a tsunami of political spam from all sides. I suspect you don't have to dig very deep to find out that quite a bit of squelching was being done on several subreddits. One needs to look no further than the spam that has made youtube comments a no-mans land of crass stupidity to see why a fairly broad brush of modding is req'd to keep some reasonable level of maturity.