I think it's interesting to see how power-tripping mods are ruining Reddit.

For instance, I generally post in "local" subs, because they tend to be more balanced than the big subs like "news", "worldnews", "politics", etc.

I've learned to avoid saying anything Conservative, because that's the fastest way to get banned on Reddit. There's an obvious bias against conservative Redditors.

The subreddit for where I actually live is a complete bore. 90% of the posts are pictures of sunsets, and the other 10% of the posts are anti-Trump, and aren't even on-topic.

The other day, I called someone out on my local sub, because they were spamming dozens of local subs with the same anti-Trump meme. It had literally nothing to do with the city that I live in, they were just posting it on every local sub they could find.

I got banned for calling them out.

This seemed remarkably petty; the poster was clearly breaking Reddit rules, and I got banned for saying that?

So I went down the rabbit hole of seeing who the mods were, only to discover that it was one dude, with two sock puppet accounts, along with six other mods who haven't been active in years.

After realizing this, I suddenly realized why the sub was such a bore: there was one person on a power trip, banning everyone who wasn't interested in:

• pictures of sunsets

• and anti-Trump posts

One person had turned a sub for a city of a million people into an echo chamber.

This type of behavior is bad for Reddit itself, because Reddit dies when the place turns into one big echo chamber. It's boring.