I hope the extreme polarization and just general toxicity doesn’t last here. I get that Reddit is perfectly designed to split people into tribes, and I hope that’s not true of this site as well.

Not left? Banned. Not far left? Banned. Not authleft? Banned.

I was banned from subreddits more often for opposing the open advocation of totalitarianism than anything else.

Same, though my attempt at a pure evil run is to still be super polite to every NPC at every opportunity, but do evil things when it helps min-max.

Influence is the currency of power. As a power mod of the most visible subreddits she would’ve had a lot of influence over information served to millions of people. She was involved in the silicon valley tech bubble and all of her siblings had careers in tech as well.

Reminds me of Google trying to force everyone with any kind of Google account to use Google+. If you had an account on YouTube, it’d convert that to a Google account, automatically create a Google+ account for it, and start posting your activities to it by itself. I know a ton of people who had active Google+ accounts they didn’t even know about.

How many times must they be sued for this exact thing? It would be nice if they faced some real consequences this time.

I wouldn’t be able to adequately and fairly summarize it. The mod being discussed probably spent more time posting new threads than posting comments, but was the first to reach 1 million karma, remained top 10 karma until 2020ish and is still one of the top ranking by karma even though they haven’t posted anything since 2 days before Ghislaine Maxwell’s arrest. This person isn’t someone I ever interacted with either, even though they were a powermod of many of the top subreddits.

One of the most prolific power mods of all time may have been Ghislaine Maxwell. There’s quite a bit of circumstantial evidence to suggest so.

Edit: I’m adding a link to an objective, comprehensive analysis of the theory here

https://youtu.be/fd2KicX8yjM

dances an angry jig while sobbing

Boooooooooo, karma farming is one of the reasons Reddit is the way it is. We don’t need bots scraping old posts, reposting them and then other bots posting the top comments from the old post. That along with the totally natural and candid “this product™ changed my life, so let me tell you about it” posts are my least favorite advent of the last decade of Reddit.

Publicly Lemme Ask Your Earnest Radical Opinion Nobody Expected

inserts needle into vein

“This is getting ridiculous, I’ll send them my blood, and I’ll drink the verification can, but I won’t dance while doing it! That’s my line in the sand.”

Major Assholes

Petty Tyrants

An actual human sex trafficker (allegedly)