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View submission: [Recap] The great xkcd mod-sidebar blowup
I really don't understand why subs have to be ruled democratically or by the whoever "owns" the content. I think reddit is small and unimportant enough to have moderators kicked at the admin's discression - forming a "meritocracy" of sorts.
I mean the admins know that if people do leave for kicking racist subreddit squatters, they aren't exactly the type of people that they would want around in reddit. Plus, they know that if they do kick moderators that do not do anything wrong, they would just cause another digg exodus.
Right now, by keeping mods in /r/xkcd they are alienating the audience that they want to keep - the normal unbigoted and simply bored redditors who actually come here for and posts quality content. They don't want to battle some loser with a superiority complex just because he/she is squatting the sub.
Despite all this bullshit, I can honestly say am addicted to reddit. But I'm addicted to the small obscure subs with great like-minded userbases not reddit as a whole. But if someone else comes up with a better social bookmarking site that has this content, I would gladly leave. The admins can and should clean reddit up.
There's nothing here!