Another thing about reddit is besides politics, the admins have a cabal of their personal friends controlling all the large and default subreddits. The amount of favoritism they give them is off the charts, and they bulldoze anyone who stands in the way. I caught on to it when I noticed that the only people who were consistently able to get to the front page and the top of comment chains, or grow successful subreddits, were the same people in this particular clique. Which turns out to have multiple secret chats with the admins, a claim they deny but which has been proven many times and they have even let it slip on a number of occasions. They disguise it as a place for default mods to discuss boring stuff, but they already have a private subreddit for moderators. No, rather the way you become a default mod is by joining their clique, and thereby get access to all of their secret stuff. It's "technically" not a collusion subreddit. And people who join suddenly begin appearing everywhere on reddit, their subreddits boom inexplicably, their karma shoots way up, and they become a moderator of hundreds of huge subreddits, and the admins suddenly start engaging with them. When you point out any of this, they attack you and silence you and call you crazy. The cronyism isn't as bad anymore, it's more just generic corruption. But until the last few years it was rampant. I can trace it all the way back to karmanaut.