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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)
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)
Power moderator who led the August 2021 moderator open letter demanding Reddit act on COVID misinformation
moderated dozens of communities containing millions of members
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
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
r/Art moderator whose ban of an artist for saying 'prints' triggered a mass mod resignation and Reddit's power-mod limits
r/Art
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