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Is there a source for this?

• SilverElfin 1y ago
  See this Reddit discussion: “The same 5 people moderates 500 of the most popular subreddits” https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/gjl27j/the_same_5_people_moderates_500_of_the_most/ https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/gjl27j/the_... It appears the original post they are discussing was removed. Seems like Reddit banned the original user who collected this data and deleted their posts. Another discussion about this: “Six powermods control 118 of the top 500 subreddits” https://www.reddit.com/r/WatchRedditDie/comments/gkkfg5/updated_and_sanitized_six_powermods_control_118/ https://www.reddit.com/r/WatchRedditDie/comments/gkkfg5/upda...
• lurk2 1y ago
  I don’t know if you can still see them without an account but even a few years ago this was well-known and you could verify it yourself by looking at the moderator list of almost any default subreddit; we’re talking about less than a few hundred users. There was no limit to how many subreddits you could moderate for most of Reddit’s history so in the early days a few users created as many subreddits as they could. A bunch of these moderators effectively shut down Reddit over changes to the API a couple of years ago. Steve Huffman compared the system to a landed gentry: > “If you’re a politician or a business owner, you are accountable to your constituents. So a politician needs to be elected, and a business owner can be fired by its shareholders,” he said. > “And I think, on Reddit, the analogy is closer to the landed gentry: The people who get there first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.”