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This is a good point. While there are far more abusive, unhinged users than abusive, unhinged moderators, the lower number of bad mods are able to cause much more harm to a community. Being permanently banned from r/psychology because you gently criticised a paper the moderator liked is a much bigger deal to me than some guy saying "ur gay and stupid", which I can easily block or ignore. I feel like over time Reddit has been ramping up the power and capabilities of moderators without counterbalancing it with oversight. Power corrupts, obviously, and some of the most powerful moderators on the site blatantly victimise people they dislike or disagree with. It's too easy to think up an edge-case rule violation you can apply to permaban a guy you dislike, and mods ALWAYS get away with it.
Comment by MaximilianKohler at 06/08/2020 at 14:36 UTC
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Exactly.