yanderekko
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- Mar 20, 2015
Yeah, there was some line in spez's response to the initial petitions about punishing groups that are trying to "manipulate Reddit." A lot of people read this as being aimed at the subs like /r/NoNewNormal (which I believe gets accused of brigading other subs, which is a standard complaint against all targeted subs), but I think the real reading is that it's a warning to the jannies that these sorts of coordinated protests are something that they may not tolerate in the future. If Reddit wants to go public, they're going to start to have to face questions about whether allowing activist moderators to dictate sitewide policies (ie. ban viewpoints that they dislike) is really in the interest of the company's bottom line. Other social media platforms don't have these issues - maybe there are alternative solutions to the powerjanny problem that should be considered.The admins don't want users to form an impression that there are coordinated large-scale efforts behind the scenes to manipulate the site "unfairly." Reddit owes much of its (undeserved) popularity to the superficial image of fairness it projects, so the admins have to at least feign disapproval of widespread backdoor collusion. In situations like this one where the exact details actually leaked, the admins are forced to very publicly disavow and flex against it just to try to ensure users don't think the admins themselves were involved (if possible).
