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> I think you have to separate the admins, who are reddit employees, and the subreddit moderators, who are mostly not. Admins created automod which delegated s
by unityByFreedom 8y ago
> I think you have to separate the admins, who are reddit employees, and the subreddit moderators, who are mostly not.
Admins created automod which delegated shadowbanning to moderators. Who's to blame for that? The mods or the admins? It's an age-old question whether kings or peasants are to blame for humanity's imperfections.
Some mods probably would have scripted something themselves, yet admins helped them and others along. You can go in circles trying to assign blame. I'm not sure there's an answer except to continue to try making it better.
- xiongchiamiov 8y ago> Admins created automod They did not. Automod was created by a user as just another script that interacted with reddit's api (albeit, a powerful and useful one). Deimorz eventually joined reddit and became an admin, and Automod was eventually integrated into the site code (primarily for performance reasons), but that was completely user-created, and in fact a great example of how reddit's community governed the site for a long time in absence of much direction from reddit Inc.
- unityByFreedom 8y agoOkay, user created, and promoted to be on-server and faster by reddit. Automod is a heavy-handed tool that both mods and admins played a role in creating.