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This may be true for top subreddits but definitely not all. Especially the ones mentioned in the website. Like I doubt there are any powermods on r/ProgrammingL

• devwastaken 5y ago
  Its hard to tell. The design of Reddit is heavily favored towards mods. If something happens the mod will simply remove the post(s), squash the reports, and it will all look like nothing ever happened. A single mod can do whatever they want on a subreddit and effectively hide it from other mods. The "hide the mod list" feature prevents users from appealing to other less active mods. What is considered "politically incorrect" is not universal. Software has plenty of its strong opinions and people whom want to squash opinions. Over time some subreddits get taken over and used for personal benefit. Lots of crypto schemes and people looking to sell things. The bans generally don't happen over technical disagreements, they happen when a mod themselves gets inflammatory with users and users push back. Simply what I'm saying is reddit is designed against communities, don't get invested. There's useful stuff but underneath it's not any different from boards of old.