Huffman said in an interview that he plans to institute rules changes that would allow Reddit users to vote out moderators who have overseen the protest, comparing them to a "landed gentry."
Wait, what? Huffman himself is "landed gentry"; moderators are among those who have to do the actual work.
it looks like the mods are just being dicks.
Business as usual, apparently. I once received an automod notice that I didn't have enough karma points to post a link. (At that point I had accumulated many karma points, but not in that sub.)
So I messaged the mods and asked what the minimum was, since it wasn't stated anywhere in the rules. The reply? "Sorry, we can't disclose that." Wait, what?
Indeed; same "divide and conquer" tactics that politicians often use to retain power.