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Most of the issues I've had with Reddit have been down to moderators, rather than the admin staff themselves. I won't name the subreddit, because it essentiall

Most of the issues I've had with Reddit have been down to moderators, rather than the admin staff themselves. I won't name the subreddit, because it essentially names the moderator involved, but I answered a question regarding website performance on a popular developer subreddit. Someone responded back by saying that I was clearly a terrible developer because I said that squeezing performance out of a personal site wasn't essential. I told that person, quite bluntly, not to be a dick, and I got permabanned with the message "no, you're a dick". I protested to one of the mods, not necessarily for my ban to be rescinded, but for that mod to stop being a dick to people. His comment history showed a pattern of that behaviour, and (most likely) a pattern of bans. The other mod unbanned me, and I left it at that. Weirdly, the only subreddits I've ever had problems are the larger ones. I post regularly on /r/Games and /r/bjj, and both are moderated brilliantly.

shifto 7y ago
Reddit has a problem with the power-mods who mod a lot of subreddits and think they own Reddit. Lot's of behind the scenes chatter and conspiring to stay in power and take-over up-and-coming subreddits. This has been a problem for years and Reddit doesn't care because where else will they find people as motivated as the current power-mods? It's basically all they have in life I feel like.
- EnderMB 7y ago
  It's a weird dynamic, and it's one that I would love to see researched, because being a moderator is a thankless job that doesn't really offer the use any real power - but evidence suggests that people will go to great lengths to abuse that power. It gets especially weird in some of the football subreddits. Some moderators try to push the narrative that having a popular football subreddit, or controlling the subreddit for a particular football team (e.g. /r/reddevils) gives them the ability to pretend to be "in-the-know", and to speculate on transfers, pretend they know decisions going on at the club, etc.

shifto 7y ago

Reddit has a problem with the power-mods who mod a lot of subreddits and think they own Reddit. Lot's of behind the scenes chatter and conspiring to stay in power and take-over up-and-coming subreddits. This has been a problem for years and Reddit doesn't care because where else will they find people as motivated as the current power-mods? It's basically all they have in life I feel like.

EnderMB 7y ago
It's a weird dynamic, and it's one that I would love to see researched, because being a moderator is a thankless job that doesn't really offer the use any real power - but evidence suggests that people will go to great lengths to abuse that power. It gets especially weird in some of the football subreddits. Some moderators try to push the narrative that having a popular football subreddit, or controlling the subreddit for a particular football team (e.g. /r/reddevils) gives them the ability to pretend to be "in-the-know", and to speculate on transfers, pretend they know decisions going on at the club, etc.