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A moderator who controls an unusually large number of communities at once, wielding outsized influence over what content is allowed to survive across a big share of a platform.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"Turns out the same handful of power mods control half the biggest subreddits."
LORE & ORIGIN
Coined specifically to describe Reddit's moderation structure, where a small number of accounts hold moderator positions across dozens or hundreds of large subreddits simultaneously, a pattern that became a recurring subject of platform-governance criticism.
FIRST SEEN
2015
PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)
Not established
CURRENT STATUS
Legacy / Decaying Slang
Related To:Moderator / Mod
EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES
AURA IMPACT ⓘ
+1 AURA
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2015
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