i can’t stand megathreads – no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!

  • LocutusOfBeetleBorg@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Influence is the currency of power. As a power mod of the most visible subreddits she would’ve had a lot of influence over information served to millions of people. She was involved in the silicon valley tech bubble and all of her siblings had careers in tech as well.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, but being a reddit mod and power user, regardless of how big you are, is still the lowest rung on the power-having totem pole. I can’t think of anyone that gets mocked on reddit more then mods. Maybe furries, but at least some of those mods deserve it. It just doesn’t seem like the kind of power someone in her position would bother to have