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Not sure if there are any ex Redditors old enough to remember the Sydrah debacle?
In which a Reddit user and mod of several communities advertised on LinkedIn that they were ‘a social community manager who had pull in several online communities’ (“has pull” is a direct quote the rest is paraphrased) and that they could be paid to influence the narrative in these communities.
Someone doxxed them and leaked the LinkedIn profile and a vast swathe of the community cried out in horror and revulsion. Oh how the bacon narwhaled on that day!
She’s still a mod of 2xC and at least a few dozen other subs.
Looks like Reddit just legitimised her now ancient play really. It’ll be a website full of Sydrahs after this.
Everyone loves to joke about how moderators are “jannies” and “free labor” but let’s be honest, all the power mods that have control of dozens of subs are making money off it. Political/news subs have loads of value to groups with agendas, and non-political subs still have value to corporations that want to advertise their products.
The only thing Sydrah did that was unique was getting caught.
Wholeheartedly agree.
I always apply the adage: ‘if it can be done it is being done’.
How did you find the mod list on that sub? I'm using browser now to occasionally check Reddit, but it seems like they are removing rhe ability to search for sub mods, or maybe I'm just not looking hard enough.
In old.reddit, it's on the bottom of the side bar. If it's not visible, perhaps it can be hidden by CSS, but I think the link in format https://www.reddit.com/r/[subreddit]/about/moderators will be always available. Note that this link points to new reddit; it works there as well.
Not a clue. That website is dead to me.