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A subreddit is not a dictatorship. Everyone that participates in the subreddit it doing so voluntarily. Your argument that Reddit has a higher authority that can deal with bad moderators just kicks the can. What if the Reddit universal mods abuse their power in the same ways your described?

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Yeah, I mean what if a Reddit admin abused their power by like, I don't know, editing a user's comment. How would you address that? I guess you could punish them by letting them continue to be CEO or something.

> what if a Reddit admin abused their power by like, I don't know, editing a user's comment. How would you address that?

You (user) can most readily address it by not using reddit. That is the ultimate answer to all of this. If you don't use reddit, then problems with reddit aren't your problems anymore.

Hypothetically speaking, of course.

Obviously, do you really think someone could do that and keep their job/credibility? I just thought it would be a fun thought experiment, maybe it was a little far-fetched though.

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