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- Nov 14, 2017
I'm aware, but let me put it this way: When Maoists and Stalinists fight, you don't root for one of them, you laugh at the misery of both. Reddit's admins are directly the reason why there are so many power mods, and I'm actually fairly certain at this point that some of them actually *are* paid on the downlow. After spez put his foot in his mouth editing posts on the_donald the admins have been mostly silent, and since then they've been able to brush aside every controversy by just doing what every other company in corporate America does.They hide behind the unpaid tranny jannies to do things the site itself could potentially be sued for, like openly promoting pedophilia, banning any criticism of pedophiles, and hiding child grooming going on on the site.
By no means did reddit jannies hijack reddit away from the admins in any way, shape, or form. Anyone who followed reddit for awhile has known the admins have always had massive preferential treatment for social justice posters and that the admins themselves were heavily involved in such causes. Even if all of these tranny jannies had never been born, reddit would still be the same place it is today. Reddit.com is as organic a website as when CNN or Fox do the "Ask the candidates the questions!" thing with social media, they already have the questions, they just find someone who posted it. Reddit's admins go after top mods for communities they want to control until they get someone they like. And it's easy, but everything they do is so opaque. Nobody cares if someone there gets randomly banned with no stated reason (yes, it happens to controversial posters), who is going to question what penalties you get? You appeal a ban, they'll wait out the length of the ban to overturn it. You have no idea how many people have their 7 day ban overturned on the 7th day. It's done on purpose, if not automated already. They pull all sorts tricks to seem like an impartial outlet when they've been rigging the deck since the outset.
Furthermore, reddit jannies cannot sitewide ban, and if you haven't noticed, it's incredibly easy to get banned from reddit these days. In the old days it was actually kind of hard, and now even your random person off the street experiences getting banned on reddit regularly. It's hard to keep an account alive on reddit if you're not part of the young progressive movement they want on the site.