Say goodbye to any sense of community that place had in the next year or two.

This place may have its bugs, but it’s definitely superior.

Mod of 100 subreddits. There's no way you can effectively act in the interests of all of those communities.

Reddit wants mods that will support them.

Are they actually independent of Reddit Inc? I had assumed a lot of those Reddit accounts moderating a huge amount of subs are actually Reddit employees.

Also those type of Reddit accounts often don't do much actual moderating. They are the reason people complain about top mods that can't be removed, never respond to modmail, etc. & will randomly wake up to make changes to the subreddit whenever they feel like it.

Can't say I'm surprised in the slightest.

Bet those guys are frothing at the mouth at all the extra power theyre getting.

I’m sure the mods of all large subs will be paid staff soon.

Can you be a bit more specific. Top or bottom?

The moment I saw this headline this song popped into my head for some reason...

Can you remind me what a power mod is?

Any hope for Awkwardtheturtle I wonder?

I was wondering when they'd get around to doing that. RIP Reddit.

Oh thank goodness. The big subs, or at least some of them, will get back to business as usual.

I just had a thought when responding to one of the comments here.

The possibility that the one power mod account is a managed account that is shared among multiple individuals.

For a big company, the one mod account could be just a placeholder and then the account is forwarded to cheap tech workers in India or Pakistan (or some other place in the world that has enough English language skills) that use the account in blocks of hours every day. The one account could literally work round the clock 24 hours a day forever as it gets passed around between six or eight people. If you had eight people working on it round the clock, they would all be working on it at three hour increments each. Which makes it manageable for one person to focus their energy and do some sort of quality work. And because they are cheap labor, they don't have to be in different time zones, you just force them to work at any and all hours of the day.

So instead of showing the community that you hired 20, 30 or 40 cheap tech workers to act as mods for pennies, it just appears as one two or three professional mods that magically seem to be capable of doing the work of multiple people.