power mod

English

Alternative forms

• powermod

Noun

power mod (plural power mods)

1. (Reddit, derogatory) Someone who has a significant amount of influence across Reddit due to being a moderator of many subreddits.
   • 2020 May 19, Colleen Hagerty, “Reddit's top user says he's 'done' after being outed”, in The Daily Dot‎^[1], archived from the original on 2023-01-28:

     "Once a fairly free site, in the wake of these power mods it has become restricted and apersonal," Rootin-tootin_putin continued in an email to the Daily Dot. "The point of peer moderators was to ensure that the person in charge of a sub was someone who genuinely cares about the topic; these power mods undermine this entirely."