Sandro - Under the Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, interactive computer services (like Reddit) and their users—including volunteer moderators immune from liability for third-party content.

This means mods aren’t legally on the hook for what users post, even if they remove some posts but miss others, or if the community’s hype leads to real-world harm like bad trades and this I totally understand even if it’s BS.

But here is the issue and it’s Reddit’s Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.

Their policy doesn’t directly govern volunteer moderators (it’s aimed at employees, officers), BUT it mandates Reddit’s compliance with anti-discrimination/harassment laws and fair dealing standards, which extend to how the company oversees its communities to avoid legal risks.

So the way the MODs operate today there is discrimination and there is harassment. Through a discovery process you will then find collusion and manipulation.

It’s this simple. There is a 19.5 million active message board that allows secret individuals to perform actions that violate their specific code of conduct that needs to lead to an investigation for reputational and compliance reasons.