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View submission: The history of the /r/xkcd kerfuffle.
I see what you mean; if, say, the CEO of Old Spice is granted modship of /r/oldspice and he started censoring links to /r/irishspring, that would be bad. But I think that's less likely to happen from an official person than a random internet user. Besides, I don't know of many subreddits made for corporations that people would subscribe to.
Comment by Taiko at 09/02/2014 at 00:05 UTC
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It doesn't have to be a company though. Maybe Randall Munroe has a secret blood feud with The Oatmeal so he censors links to it.
Maybe Arnold Schwarzenegger is a scientologist and gets the mods to promote it on /r/ArnoldSchwarzenegger
I rather doubt that pictures of Barbra Streisand's house would have made it onto /r/BarbraStreisand
There are many, many different ways that an individual may abuse the system. Of course, a regular mod can do this too, as we have very clearly seen in your example. But if anything I'd guess that the IP owners are more likely to engage in such things, not less (especially in Streisand's case)
Comment by nettdata at 09/02/2014 at 02:50 UTC
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If only Randall had some form of outlet to express to people his views and thoughts on things.
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Comment by MXIIA at 10/02/2014 at 01:17 UTC
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/r/Samsung has this going on. The Samsung staff isn't modded but they frequent there and provide support.
It's to the point where it's no longer discussing Samsung products, but asking for support on Samsung products.
Comment by sinembarg0 at 09/02/2014 at 18:50 UTC
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Check out some of the drama that happened in the /r/pebble subreddit, where man members of the Pebble team (who owns the IP) were formerly moderators. Definitely not a good idea to let them run the subreddit.