Steve Huffman, the Reddit CEO, told NBC News in an interview that a user protest on the site this week is led by a minority of moderators and doesn’t have wide support.
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...
And:
If you’re a politician or a business owner, you are accountable to your constituents. So a politician needs to be elected, and a business owner can be fired by its shareholders...
Yikes. I can see this going badly and leading to hostile takeovers of subreddits if not implemented with safeguards. Also, they already "fuzz" the voting on posts. Who's to say they won't fuzz the voting on this.
I'm really happy I left reddit. u/spez will run it into the ground.