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View submission: Reddit's Decline in Democracy
reddits are owned or controlled by individuals or small groups because they're created by individuals who recruit small groups to help them keep track of things.
I can't vouch for all of the reddits, but the moderation of the largest ones, whether by team reddit or others, is pretty fair and not particularly heavy-handed.
Comment by jalanb at 14/05/2009 at 03:34 UTC
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And the rest of us should shut up and just trust that it is fair ?
Kinda proves the basic point - not exactly a democracy round here, is it ?
Not that I was particularly expecting democracy mind you.
Comment by IrrigatedPancake at 13/05/2009 at 21:30 UTC
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The only point the guy made that I thought wouldn't hurt if addressed was that reddit staff controlled subs and reddit user run subs aren't very easy to distinguish. Even that, though, doesn't seem like an especially pressing matter, at least not to me. I haven't noticed much of a difference between the staff and user moderation.