Not really. Sort by new and take a look yourself. Nonsense posts get downvoted before a moderator has to do anything. People who sort by top or whatever never see it.
ignoring the autoamted tools mods created, distribtued, and customized themselves to capture certain keywords or websites before it even hit /new
>People who sort by top or whatever never see it.
nope, just low effort memes, reposts, and unhinged rants,depending on the community. Or just porn.
If mods have rules against those, then there's your moderator work right there. Congrats.
That's why I left.
The general point you are making IS correct though, upvotes/downvotes are the primary moderation mechanism on Reddit. Moderators are the second layer of moderation, and admins are the third. In my experience the users did an absolute majority of the moderation work except on weird heavily modded communities.