[aluminussoma]

Here is why I find it hard to believe there is a cabal of mods: what is their motivation for shutting down Reddit? If this is true, these fiefdom mods are hurting themselves financially and personally by keeping their subreddits shut down.

The simplest explanation to me is that they protest because they care. It is not just Apollo. They don't like the overall direction Reddit is heading in.

[OrvalWintermute]

> Here is why I find it hard to believe there is a cabal of mods:

Reddit mods doing things like this is well known [1] [2]

What is really strange is how the mods will tend to infiltrate a subreddit, get mod rights, and then bring over a bunch of other mods that are already cross-modding important subs across Reddit.

This has led to weird situations where a few mods control much of Reddit's top subreddits [3]

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/modabuse/

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/zk39a1/cmv_mo...

[3] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/reddit-92-of-the-top-5...