>Huffman told NBC that the current system, where moderators can only be removed by themselves, higher-ranking mods, or Reddit itself, was “not democratic.”
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>A moderator for r/Pics on Friday posted a message telling the site’s users that they would vote between letting the subreddit continue operating normally or only allowing images of “John Oliver looking sexy.” The subreddit is Reddit’s seventh-largest and has more than 30 million subscribers.
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>”We – the so-called ‘landed gentry’ – *definitely* want to comply with the wishes of the ‘royal court,’ and they’ve told us that we need to run the subreddit in the way that its members want,” the post reads.
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>Users voted 37,331 to 2,329 in favor of sexy John Oliver.
Welp, only a couple more weeks until all these “power mods” are (hopefully) perma-banned and we can let some of the more enthusiastic / less-entitled folks wield some mod powers, for once.
IronSentinel says
>Huffman told NBC that the current system, where moderators can only be removed by themselves, higher-ranking mods, or Reddit itself, was “not democratic.”
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>A moderator for r/Pics on Friday posted a message telling the site’s users that they would vote between letting the subreddit continue operating normally or only allowing images of “John Oliver looking sexy.” The subreddit is Reddit’s seventh-largest and has more than 30 million subscribers.
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>”We – the so-called ‘landed gentry’ – *definitely* want to comply with the wishes of the ‘royal court,’ and they’ve told us that we need to run the subreddit in the way that its members want,” the post reads.
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>Users voted 37,331 to 2,329 in favor of sexy John Oliver.
Brittlehorn says
How dare you, there are only ‘looking sexy’ photos of John Oliver. r/pics
Midarenkov says
But that’s every John Oliver pic.
russellvt says
It’s so lame, already… LOL
Welp, only a couple more weeks until all these “power mods” are (hopefully) perma-banned and we can let some of the more enthusiastic / less-entitled folks wield some mod powers, for once.