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View submission: Better Faster Stronger: Recent improvements to moderation tools.
Why do you care how many subs a user mods?
Comment by j_cruise at 02/08/2022 at 19:48 UTC
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The main concern is that "supermods" (a person who moderates an extremely large number of huge subreddits) have an extreme amount of control over information and what is shared and allowed on the website. Some fear that a single person being able to control the spread of information is dangerous, a la "1984"
Comment by WorksForMe at 02/08/2022 at 22:18 UTC
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A person in that position has the ability to shape and control discussion, suppress information, and is capable of abuse for their own gain. They effectively become a curator of information for millions of people. The impact a moderator is having isn't very transparent so it wont be immediately obvious if a supermod has an agenda of some sort.
With a tv channel, publication or a newspaper it's much clearer that the publication has an editor and all the content is generally going to follow the principals of that publication. With Reddit it is heavily implied that subreddits are independent communities with their own content policies other than the global reddiquette. Supermods are capable of creating a narrative across vast parts of Reddit thus giving them massive editorial powers and influence with not much transparency.
Comment by [deleted] at 02/08/2022 at 19:50 UTC
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