This ignores some critical context.<p>For one, the worst behaved subreddits moderation wise are often the &quot;default&quot; ones, meaning the ones that everyone sees when logged out. They have a favored position on the site, in other words. Every user is subscribed to them by default, which also means their content is going to wind up on &#x2F;r&#x2F;all more often.<p>Also, once a subreddit gets that size, crap mods can get away with a <i>lot</i> more because the volume of submissions make it hard to tell that something untoward is going on. And the people who pay attention (perhaps a few thousand on a good day) will easily be drowned out by those who do not.<p>Community forks happen, but never at that level. The deck is <i>hilariously</i> stacked towards the entrenched communities.