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      Came here to say this as well. As funny as this would be if it were an accident, just prior to me going scorched earth on my accounts I saw several subreddits in protest that made everyone subscribed to their sub a mod, and confirmed it myself.

      It’s very likely a subreddit that the person was subbed to and forgot/didn’t know they were doing that.

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      On r/politicalhumor and r/madlads, the answer is yes. But you need subreddit karma to log mod actions. There is a bot running in those subs which facilitates it.

    • If I read the announcement correctly, that is implemented by a bot with mod privileges that parses comments and takes actions on users’ behalf. I don’t think it’s practical to literally make every user a moderator.

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      I’m tempted to install the app and mod myself a /r/u_username sub just to see what chaos I can cause over on the big subs.

      … or is that what they EXPECT me to do…?

      Nope. The only winning move is not to play.

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    Wish they had gone through with it. The app is just a front-end that sends requests to the server, presumably the server is where authentication happens (otherwise everyone could just pull up dev tools on their desktop and become insta-mods of any sub with a few tweaks). That being said, if it was a server-side bug, then they have a big problem; otherwise it’s just little more than a graphical error.

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      Broken authorization is absurdly common, especially if they involve graphQl. I wouldn’t be surprised if it worked.

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    This is genius because you basically grew your mod count for certain subreddits by “borrowing” from other subreddit mods.

    /s

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    I mentioned this on the crosspost thread (speaking of which, why crosspost? It just splits comments), but I digress:

    This could be because some subreddits went nuclear and made all users mods.

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      why crosspost?

      I’m new to Lemmy and trying to learn how everything works. Also yeah I made everyone on r/madlads and r/politicalhumor a mod via the Mod Democracy Bot.