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user-inactivated  ·  3433 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Reddit Apologises

I'm kinda confused by all of this to be honest... it's hard to wrap your head around Reddit drama, and why I don't really like it, but considering this one might tip the scale and Reddit might collapse as a result, I would like to understand it. I get what actually happened with Victoria and stuff, but the reaction doesn't really make a whole lot of sense to me.

So the corrupt mods of reddit all staged a coup disguised as support for an admin that the people loved because the mods couldn't censor the people of reddit fast enough to make more corruption money, essentially? And the people of reddit are mad at the admins?

All I know is that in my RSS feeds, all my reddit sections went dead for a day until I got on Reddit itself. From a disconnected viewer of Reddit, it just seemed like the mods were a bigger problem than the admins during this debacle. They exploited a loophole that made a lot of people lose their stream of information for the day. "the front page of the internet" died. Seems like a security flaw to me.





matjam  ·  3433 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think it's showing the basic flaw of reddit; relying on voluntary moderators to moderate subreddits.