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TBF, I don't think any of those points are things that weren't problems before the feature. power users control subs regardless due to how community circlejerks form and people have, are, and will continue to spread lies of topics in a wide variety of things in and outside your scope of knowledge.
I see these less as a tool to combat misinformation and more of a way for smaller scale users who casually use the sub to better block out persistent users. You can't really solve the problems you highlighted without having a full time paid staff fact checking everything. And reddit has never shown interest in this
Comment by MaximilianKohler at 20/01/2022 at 17:45 UTC
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I think most of the issues I highlighted could be largely solved by enforcing the mod guidelines. However, in my experience the reddit admins treat & think of users as their "playthings", mods as their sadistic babysitters, and this site only as a money maker. And apparently solving these problems is irrelevant to their monetary income. Sweeping them under the rug seems to be their go-to option.
Yes, the issues are existing, but this change makes them so much worse.