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Reddit has a problem with the power-mods who mod a lot of subreddits and think they own Reddit. Lot's of behind the scenes chatter and conspiring to stay in power and take-over up-and-coming subreddits. This has been a problem for years and Reddit doesn't care because where else will they find people as motivated as the current power-mods? It's basically all they have in life I feel like.

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It's a weird dynamic, and it's one that I would love to see researched, because being a moderator is a thankless job that doesn't really offer the use any real power - but evidence suggests that people will go to great lengths to abuse that power.

It gets especially weird in some of the football subreddits. Some moderators try to push the narrative that having a popular football subreddit, or controlling the subreddit for a particular football team (e.g. /r/reddevils) gives them the ability to pretend to be "in-the-know", and to speculate on transfers, pretend they know decisions going on at the club, etc.

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