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Mnemon-TORreport t1_jd8grm4 wrote

The blessing and curse of Reddit has always been the people creating and running subreddits.

Some subreddits were created by folks who saw a need for a place to discuss, educate, explore and truly celebrate a topic that didn't exist before.

Many others are created by folks who have no business having power over anybody or anything, and are elevated to a position of authority because they got lucky and grabbed a now coveted subreddit topic because they just got their first.

The piece that's most concerning to me (assuming it is true and I'd love to hear from u/ky1e on this) is the story bopping around that Linux did an end around and essentially convinced Reddit to elevate him as a moderator based on some dubious Facebook job he holds.

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ky1e t1_jd8h45d wrote

They did not mention any job with Facebook when they applied to be added as mod, that was first I heard of it yesterday.

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OkayTryAgain t1_jd8hz9y wrote

The curse is that like every position of power, the people who seek it out the most often are generally not the best of the bunch to hold the position.

Many large subs are moderated by the same network of mods. These people don't get paid for the position. Why do they want it so bad? Having a sense of power has to be one top reasons.

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caminandoennubes OP t1_jd8lg6s wrote

Yeah, for me what was unique was the online diary. But in my personal life I've had times facing people who were 100% committed to seeing things a certain way, and acted against me like a black sheep, or against me and a group of friends. The power-trip aspect of this was disappointingly familiar.

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ahecht t1_jd93v4e wrote

L-I-B said that he was appointed as moderator to twice, once by /u/ky1e and once by the reddit admins (probably applied at /r/redditrequest saying that the existing mods were inactive). Not sure what happened between those times.

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ky1e t1_jd94ao5 wrote

that is simply untrue, admins never appointed them. Why would they do that and keep myself and NightProcrastinator here?

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ahecht t1_jd97brb wrote

Yeah, his story didn't really add up.

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