Comment by heeero60 on 29/01/2014 at 12:08 UTC

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Wait, so he has been mod of /r/xkcd for over 2 years? Did nobody notice this before? Who was the previous top mod?

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Comment by diagonally_stacked at 29/01/2014 at 12:15 UTC

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Did nobody notice this before?

I think people were aware for a while that he did nothing with the sub, but managed to post enough on reddit to prevent anyone else from taking /r/xkcd from him. It wasn't until a few months ago [1] that it was getting obvious he was pushing his agenda onto /r/xkcd. Having a mod with some funny views is fine until those views get pushed against unrelated content.

1: http://np.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/1jm5dx/why_is_rmensrights_in_the_sidebar_it_has_nothing/cbg5g5h

Who was the previous top mod?

I don't know if there is a way to find that out, but the previous mod was absent enough in their duties for that to not really matter any more. Plenty of people frequent reddit, perhaps start a few subs, and then go off it a bit/have a change of life circumstances and never come back.