I don't think I agree about reddit being fixable in a single night, but I'd agree that it could be made tolerable. Just that it'd be likely for similar problems to come back afterwards.

I think Win's anti-politics stance will provide some protection against moderators with ulterior motives.

I'll interpret this favorably, but I want to point out that it will sound suspicious to others here. I'm sure you've seen some online spaces get dominated by some one-sided politics alongside claims that amount to "your ideas are political, but my ideas are moral".

Specific example. I was actually a bit alarmed when I stopped by the gaming .win, because I've had it ingrained in me from reddit that every gaming space that openly declares "no politics" will not implement the rule fairly. Reading the actual threads there afterwards, however, I did not notice evidence of such a corruption.

Back to the idea of fixing reddit, a great motion towards that end would be ensuring that all rules are applied fairly. But the nature of a ruleset is to bind its subjects, so it organically attracts bad actors who wish to place others beneath them. If you could conjure some AI supermod to eliminate that human element, the bad actors would just be pushed to the next softest target. I will not suggest attempting a purge like they have done with us, as it solves little and breeds conflict. Merely preventing the highest tiers of power from becoming compromised could be enough in the long term, but that in itself is not a simple feat.