• RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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    8 days ago

    Sounds like something you could easily orchestrate with enough people. Monitor the sub you’re interested in, use some burner accounts to fish for inactivity from the mods. Spin up accounts that create posts which break the rules and upvote those posts. Once there are enough posts in the sub, use a primary account to report all the posts to the admins and ping the admin team about the lack of moderation.

    • Chana [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      8 days ago

      It has happened many times. I believe there are even bots for taking subreddits this way, as they rapidly move to remove other mods and add their “friends” (bots/alt accounts) as mods. Not even just political subs, but hobby subs, which is what I use Reddit for.