We could imagine an alternate reality, even more enlightened Reddit, that not only had its own built-in moderator tools, it actually was concerned with the question of whether or not it had the right moderator tools, and how those tools affected how Reddit functioned, socially.
It might do things like hold focus group discussions with moderators, send anthropologists into various subs to observe the behavior of moderators and to virtually shadow moderators going about their moderating tasks, A/B test moderator tools, have opt-in betas of new moderator tools.
You know, basic grown-up company stuff, when a company actually cares about how its software functions.
But not just that.
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