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There are subreddits with the same mods for 15 years now. People get old and so do their ideas but subreddit audiences are consistently young. This is problemat
by cblconfederate 5y ago
There are subreddits with the same mods for 15 years now. People get old and so do their ideas but subreddit audiences are consistently young. This is problematic for national subreddits (which gain their audience automatically) and other "noun-word" subreddits that are people's first guesses when researching a subject. This is a major reason for bad subreddit culture.
Reddit didn't foresee that its business would last for > 5 years . They need to set expiration dates for mod positions. In democracies we do that every 4-5 years.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoAccounts are bought and sold. Just because the mod account has been the same for years doesn't mean it's the same person behind the keyboard. Mod accounts for popular subject and location subs are highly valued and sought after by people looking to move the overton window of discourse on those topics.