No offense to the commentators in this post but do y'all just lay down and take everything that comes at you without a hint of objection? Yeah I get that it's a silly website but it's one that some people have been on for 10+ years.
Those "whiny mods" are the reason you "enjoy" your reddit experience.
Are there some mods that abuse their power? Yes.
If they were actually moderating they wouldn't invent vague rules to ban whatever they want and the moderator action logs would be public.
https://i.imgur.com/qccGA91.jpg
if you think moderation is bad why are you on a moderated HN and not 4chan \b\?
> and the moderator action logs would be public
Blame reddit for not making this feature and not mods. There are 3rd party tools for public modlogs that REDDIT is trying to kill.
It’s all the petit-bourgeoisie aspects of cops in general, in fact.
And totally missing the point that protesting IS free speech! And it isn't like this is really against REDDIT THE IDEA it's against the stance they are taking with these specific things.
I think it will eventually, for some users at least (already has for me) morph into "against reddit itself" but - I'm still for the idea of a link aggregator. I think it's a great idea.