The Dirty Business of Internet Moderation

The r/technology fiasco on Reddit is an example of how forum moderation can get messy very quickly.

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Reddit has been going through a lot of changes recently, and not all of them are receiving a positive response. The community was outraged after a r/technology moderator banned a number of terms. This ignited a storm within the subreddit. Moderators were forced out, and eventually u/creq, the user who discovered the banned terms, became a mod of r/technology himself. But the damage was done, and r/technology was removed from the default front page.

This unrest within the community has led some to believe that Reddit’s mods were untouchable tyrants.

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