On one hand, this makes sense. Moderators were not elected, and do not always properly represent the thousands or millions of users in a sub, so it'd make sense to have the option to remove them when they abuse their position against their own userbase.
On the other hand, we've seen how the admins abuse this power themselves, by forcefully removing active moderators to replace them with sycophants in order to enforce their will against communities they dislike, as well as simply banning subreddits entirely.
But all in all, I really don't care much about this. Reddit is a cesspool. Let it burn.
Yeah, pretty much this. It's fun watching one side knife another, but there's no good side here. It's like watching rival gangs fight over some godforsaken corner of the crack market.
On one hand, this makes sense. Moderators were not elected, and do not always properly represent the thousands or millions of users in a sub, so it'd make sense to have the option to remove them when they abuse their position against their own userbase.
On the other hand, we've seen how the admins abuse this power themselves, by forcefully removing active moderators to replace them with sycophants in order to enforce their will against communities they dislike, as well as simply banning subreddits entirely.
But all in all, I really don't care much about this. Reddit is a cesspool. Let it burn.
Yeah, pretty much this. It's fun watching one side knife another, but there's no good side here. It's like watching rival gangs fight over some godforsaken corner of the crack market.
Seriously. It should be obvious how "vote to have moderator removed" is going to be used, and by whom it is going to be (ab)used by.