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…

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    Answer: I am biased from reading through Turtles Ban thread, so I may not have the full picture. But for the most part BEFORE the major api protests they didn’t moderate. They more or less set themselves as Managers and managed the moderation teams. They built org charts (with themselves near the tops) to ensure a chain of command where if someone wasn’t being an active enough moderator, or disagreed with other moderation staff, they would remove and replace them. I imagine AFTER the api protests, some moderators were removed due to standing in Reddits way. Some, like turtle, could not stand to lose an ounce of Influence and began to seek ways to not lose their power - either by applying for moderator in places Reddit removed staff, and/or complying with Reddits general demands to break the protest.

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      Do you know – Did the power mods ever find a way to pull money out of anything, or was it really just all for internet gatekeep power? I still just struggle to wrap my head around the motives of spending 90% of your time moderating for free, even if you’re a NEET.

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        Probably not, mabe? I don’t know how reddits moderator system works. But it does open them up to favoritism, giving friends of moderators on X special treatment inxchange to another large scale modertator