I’d argue moderators taking themselves too seriously is precisely reddits problem, but okay.

Good online communities have active and engaged moderation.

That said, Reddit moderation seems stuck in a weird limbo where moderators have a lot of power on paper but completely ineffectual tooling to combat organized and systemic abuse.

Given those limitations I find it hard to imagine Reddit modding ending up any other way.

Judge for yourself but I’m extremely proud of our community

/r/ultramarathon

We have a thriving supportive community that has been a support group for 100 thousand people that run or want to learn to run ultramarathons