The thing that will surprise me most is if the mods - who spends tens of hours a week working for free just for their status symbol, will actually remove their accounts and/or shut down subreddits for good, instead of 1 or 2 days<p>Reddit moderation is not a democracy, there is a very small group of people who control a large number of the 1 million+ subscriber subreddits. They work so hard just for the respect/props, maybe they figured out a way to make money off it buy promoting corporate posts, who knows<p>If that happens, it really will be a re-creation of Digg, where the power users ending up killing the website by manipulating it<p>Without subreddits in their full control, what else do they have?