Well, democracy answers this by asking people directly. So one way to do it is poll the sub&#x27;s members. Or, you could see whether the stuff that gets deleted was highly voted before it was deleted. If people don&#x27;t like certain content, it won&#x27;t get voted up.<p>I&#x27;m not sure which cases of hostile takeovers they&#x27;re referring to, so I don&#x27;t know what happened there, but presumably they either had a mod on their side, or got an admin to step in. The mod&#x27;s behavior must have been pretty bad if an admin intervened.