I thought the blackout sent a message+got coverage, but don't like subreddits extending it without consulting their users. I use reddit about 5-10 minutes/day so I don't care either way.
Well, duh.
Would you complain about a mod with your main account? A contributing factor is that people with newish accounts have newish accounts because a powertripping mod banned their oldish account.
All-in-all, having newish accounts complain about mods makes their complaints more legitimate, not less.
That's because they ban those people left and right
People are rightly pissed at mods here, they are constant abusers of their power
This is just fallacy of composition (stereotyping), just because some of them are toxic doesn't mean they all are.
It's the same type of argument as "All cops are corrupt because a few of them did something illegal".
Perhaps you never had an issue with them? If you really keep your nose clean there's a good chance you never encounter the mods, or rarely at least. HackerNews as always is tamer, but you still get some of those vibes.
I would also add that multiple groups are disproportionately represented. Ironically, police sympathizers are very powerful on the site. So as anti-police as reddit seems, I assure you, it's 10,000X worse. I've gotten disproportionate blowback by attacking doctors (during covid, but not about it)... this definitely happens on HN.
Reddit is incredibly biased and it's kinda gotten complicated now. It's not just a left leaning site.