Comment by [deleted] on 08/08/2014 at 16:10 UTC

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How did they become the mods then?

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Comment by viciarg at 08/08/2014 at 16:53 UTC

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/u/soccer purposely demanded mod access to subreddits where the main mod was not active, as it is possible on /r/redditrequest. Look at that subreddit and see how many subreddits he was "modding". He essentially was a subreddit squatter. He just made a post to every subreddit he was a mod in every 60 days to stay active to the system.