> Is your point that the mods don't have all these blacklists (including of words), Of course moderators have blacklists. For words / phrases / domains, they a

> Is your point that the mods don't have all these blacklists (including of words), Of course moderators have blacklists. For words / phrases / domains, they are site sanctioned through the (now) built in function called "Automoderator". User blacklists are done through the built in ban function. In fact, one would call these blacklists... moderation. Something a moderator would be expected to do. > the mods do have the blacklists but they're allowed and expected to? They are built into the site. It would logically follow that it is both allowed and expected. Stepping back, I'm not sure how you can expect a forum, any forum, to survive without moderation. > Is the mod system working well, in your opinion? This is really impossible to answer. From the bird's eye view, users and impressions are growing while reddit doesn't have to pay for moderation. A stunning success. From a lurker perspective, they never interact with moderators and generally get content that has been reviewed and determined to be within the rules, though this may vary by subreddit. From an active user perspective, the system may work well, or not well, depending on which subreddit(s) you frequent and how you use the platform. There are many subreddits, and moderators on some may certainly make your life unpleasant. So... don't be active on those subreddits. However, the number of active users, according to the 90-9-1 principle is quite small, and the number of those that ever meaningfully interact with a moderator, or even a bot moderator, are probably a magnitude smaller than that. So yes, IMO, the mod system seems to work well overall.