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The moderators who shaped — and sometimes controlled — large swaths of Reddit. Public, documented profiles of the people behind the platform's volunteer governance and the recurring debate over concentrated mod power.
r/antiwork moderator whose January 2022 Fox News interview triggered the subreddit's collapse
lead moderator of r/antiwork (1.7M+ members at the time)
r/technology moderator/PR figure who confronted users over the subreddit's secret banned-words list (2014)
moderator of the default r/technology subreddit
Power moderator at the center of the 2014 r/technology censorship/keyword-filter scandal
moderated major default subreddits including r/technology
Power moderator named in the 'Feudal Five' list and target of a mass removal campaign
moderated roughly 1,000 subreddits, several with millions of subscribers
Prolific multi-subreddit moderator who resigned from r/technology amid the 2014 censorship drama
moderated many large subreddits, including the default r/technology
Anti-hate activist moderator who led open letters pressuring Reddit's leadership over racism and hate speech
moderator of r/AgainstHateSubreddits; organized letters signed by 800+ subreddits
Reddit's most prolific link-karma power user and one of the 'Feudal Five' power moderators
moderated dozens of large subreddits (cited as part of a group of ~5 mods controlling 92 of the top 500 subreddits)
Founder and senior moderator of r/WallStreetBets, removed by Reddit in 2020 and later suing the company
founder/top moderator of r/WallStreetBets
Long-time top moderator of major default subreddits whose account went dark, fueling a (debunked) Ghislaine Maxwell theory
top moderator of r/worldnews, r/politics, r/science and r/technology
Power moderator who led the August 2021 moderator open letter demanding Reddit act on COVID misinformation
moderated dozens of communities containing millions of members
Notorious moderator of r/jailbait and r/creepshots, unmasked by Gawker in 2012
moderated roughly 400 subreddits, including some of Reddit's most popular and most controversial
Longtime r/WallStreetBets moderator ousted in the February 2021 'mod coup' over a movie deal
core moderator of r/WallStreetBets during the GameStop short squeeze