I just never heard anything about it but heard so much from other, assumedly less powerful mods. I can’t remember the one’s name that was well known either…
Well, it depends a lot on how you define a “powermod”. That graph is based on the number of subreddits moderated by each user, but you might as well take sub size into account, or overall activity.
Just for curiosity I also checked a few power mods that I have genuine disdain towards:
u/GodOfAtheism - …wow, that illiterate actually realised that there was a protest going on? And he joined it??? Colour me surprised, I bet that he fried one of his neurons (i.e. 33% of its brain mass) doing it.
u/Bardfinn - still pretending to side with the users by voicing lukewarm criticism against Reddit, while actively feeding the site, defending its actions (e.g. calling third party apps “a fuskering scheme”), and still gaslighting and trying to intimidate anyone who calls her shit out.
u/GallowBoob - he has been fairly inactive since a long time ago. He did comment on the current state of Reddit, but he’s probably uninformed on deeper matters.
Yup - he almost quit around 2020, as he was being harassed as one of the “powermods”. Back then Reddit admins still pretended that they cared about the mods, but they did jack shit to 1) prevent users from harassing those powermods, and 2) curb down the powermods through policy. (And then the Aimee Challenor case popped up, showing that Reddit does have the tool to prevent harassment - but it’ll only use them to protect its own ranks.)
I was trying to figure out why I couldn’t really recognize these names but kinda did then remembered I banned every mod from some list of major posters lol.
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damn, there are more top mods than i thought! I remember stumbling on one “powermod” but it turns out they aren’t even on this list.
Well, it depends a lot on how you define a “powermod”. That graph is based on the number of subreddits moderated by each user, but you might as well take sub size into account, or overall activity.
Just for curiosity I also checked a few power mods that I have genuine disdain towards:
Oh wow, gallowboob quit by himself? That’s surprising.
Yup - he almost quit around 2020, as he was being harassed as one of the “powermods”. Back then Reddit admins still pretended that they cared about the mods, but they did jack shit to 1) prevent users from harassing those powermods, and 2) curb down the powermods through policy. (And then the Aimee Challenor case popped up, showing that Reddit does have the tool to prevent harassment - but it’ll only use them to protect its own ranks.)
Oh haha. I’m happy he ended up quitting then, I was one of the people who “harrassed” him. He had it coming after all that, imo.
I’m fairly certain that most alleged “harassers” just called his bullshit out, that’s probably your case. (IMO it’s fine.)
However I do think that at least some people sent him death threats, “drink bleach” and the likes.
I was trying to figure out why I couldn’t really recognize these names but kinda did then remembered I banned every mod from some list of major posters lol.