As far as I know, outside of egregious violations, most subreddits have their own internal rules. Different communities seem to go through various periods of s

As far as I know, outside of egregious violations, most subreddits have their own internal rules. Different communities seem to go through various periods of success, and my experience has been that it's just as often the fault of a lack of moderation as it is from moderation itself, but MOST often, it's the scale of the community. Once a community reaches a certain size, moderation is just impossible for the handful of volunteers who do it. Either way, the article strikes me less as "reddit is declining!" as it is "oh man, things changed and I don't like it."