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Moderation can make or break a subreddit

• paulmd 3y ago
  Moderation of the subreddit matters a lot less than sitting on a common keyword. It’s not like r/real_trueToyotaFans2 is going to see a ton of traffic even if it’s the best moderated sub in the world. Domain-squatting on a couple dozen important keywords and brand names in 2005 is the powermod secret to success, not that they’re just that great at their job that they rose to the top on merit. There are quite a few subs that prove this - really, really badly moderated but sitting on super, super valuable real estate. And Reddit doesn’t really have a mechanism for handling this unless the mod is outright posting gore or something - they got their first in 2005, that’s the end of it.
• faeriechangling 3y ago
  Generally I’d say moderators can break a subreddit far more easily than they can make it, but that’s a danger of a big mod cull.