LocutusOfBeetleBorg

Very true, and I’d much prefer everyone having access than only Mods/Admins having access. If anyone can see, then everyone should be able to see. Down with internet feudalism!

Major Assholes

Petty Tyrants

An actual human sex trafficker (allegedly)

Couldn’t agree more. People here need to be okay with the possibility that Reddit continues to be popular even though it will continue to be the same scummy company that treats its users like cattle. Those of us who care about that kind of stuff are a minority of the users. There are likely tens of thousands of people who lurk Reddit, click the ads, and don’t even know about the API debacle… and that’s okay, we should all let it go.

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.”

Publicly Lemme Ask Your Earnest Radical Opinion Nobody Expected

Words of wisdom. The most efficient solution will speak for itself. People don’t like wasting time, effort, or money.

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.

dances an angry jig while sobbing

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

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.