This sentiment will forever fall on deaf ears because starting new subs cost you nothing but time and energy. I used to be a moderator on a fair number of subs with 30K+ members that I started from scratch based on that exact mentality. Nobody owes you an audience.
Doubt. Whenever a sub gets big enough the same cabal of powermods appears in the moderator list, as if by magic. They don't always replace the existing moderators but they do get added.
A user who no-one likes and not even the mods will defend suddenly appears in the mod list, and the head mod who would previously explain all decisions in detail is suddenly silent. I don't know if the admins add the new mods directly or lean on the subreddit mods to add them, but something's going on.
I've seen sub-reddits with moderator lists hidden for the safety of the moderators, or because there are too many moderators to list. How are these public?
An API may be technically public, but not for the hoi polloi. I would expect Reddit would bar API access for moderator lists that it has officially hidden.
> An API may be technically public, but not for the hoi polloi. I would expect Reddit would bar API access for moderator lists that it has officially hidden.
So what? If you are going to claim something as true you can't just say 'but the data was too hard to access so I claimed it anyway'.
I call bullshit on the parent's claim and no one has said anything to prove otherwise.
