One Reddit Mod Cripples $23.5m Company [video]
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A Reddit moderator's actions allegedly crippled a $23.5M company, sparking controversy and debate about moderation power and community responsibility.
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... with a long and easily-researched history of account and subreddit suspensions, deletions, and closures for a myriad of reasons.
Even without the obvious, known risk of a moderator action on reddit causing a company problems, they should have known better from the prior actions by reddit themselves.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45521920