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You have fair points and I realize I should have narrowed my argument. > subreddit owners and mods are also regular reddit users, unpaid My contention is that
by breck 4y ago
You have fair points and I realize I should have narrowed my argument.
> subreddit owners and mods are also regular reddit users, unpaid
My contention is that this is false, when it comes to subreddits with over 100,000 users. A lot of these mods are regularly accepting bribes and kickbacks. (Not all, of course, but a significant percentage)
I have put up some funding to get proof of this and will publish the results.
- catach 4y agoIf you're limited to using public data, I struggle to see how it'd be possible to disambiguate the "bribe" case from the other, typical reasons why rule enforcement is occasionally inconsistent. I do agree that at least some mods have been successfully bribed by external forces, but I don't see how it's Reddit-the-company's job to police commercial activity, nor does it seem to be actually illegal.
- breck 4y ago> If you're limited to using public data We're not. Old fashioned investigative journalism. > I don't see how it's Reddit-the-company's job to police commercial activity I think Reddit should allow anon users, but not anon mods. Reddit leadership exercises censorship over the major issues of the day, using their anon mods, which has caused great harm to America and the world, IMO. We don't allow anon judges and we shouldn't allow anon mods (at least for large subreddits—with great power comes great responsibility).
- catach 4y agoI hope the evidence you find is convincing of the truth.