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Comment by dTal | Hacker News Reader

Just for fun, I went to the front page of Reddit and clicked on the usernames of a few of the top posts. The very second one was "peke_f1"[0], with a post about an F1 announcement. Checking his post history reveals that he is very unpopular for somehow always managing to get the karma for large announcements, with someone accusing him of being "Gallowboob's karma farmer". Indeed, someone actually beat him to it this time - and yet his post is the one on the front page, and a post pointing this out has been removed [1].

So I assume that even many subreddits not obviously controlled by "central management" are still part of the hierarchy.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/user/peke_f1/

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/gjip7f/congrats_u...

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It is funny you happen unto this exact one, since I follow the F1 subreddit.

Indeed, peke_f1 is always the account that has posted major announcements. The moderators are often accused of deleting posts that were earlier in favor of peke_f1. Even if the link and title were exactly the same.

Is there no transparency for subreddit moderation?

No, there is not. The moderation log is only visible by other moderators (of that subreddit, you can't gain access to modlogs of subs you don't mod.)

Spez (CEO) was literally editing comments and the only definitive proof is that he owned up to it

They also edited the voting algorithm for the_donald subreddit to suppress its content and the only way we know that is because they fucked it up on the first try and made the entire frontpage ONLY TD content for an hour or more.

Would you happen to have a source for that?

I'm a regular on r/formula1 and I've always wondered how that user has big announcements in before everyone. That user even posts some really interesting videos and insights, but I never came across this. Because I check Reddit once or twice a day, I don't sort by new often

Same here, although I have been refreshing new quite often the last 24 hours :)

Whats the message board equivalent of /r/formula1?

I'd love to get into a more niche community.

I quite like the Autosport forums: https://forums.autosport.com/forum/2-racing-comments/

Or if you are more into the technical side of things: https://www.f1technical.net/forum/

Google groups has threads going back to the early (!) 80s if that helps

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