Reddit CEO claims that it was only a small minority of mods leading the protests this week. He threatens to oust mods who lead the protest.

Then he talks about how mods should really be elected by subreddit members. This is something I actually agree with, the system of moderators being self appointed by who ever created the subreddit doesn’t feel right.

If mods are removed by vote, then the community is fine. If reddit goes in and removes the troublemaker mods then all hell is going to break loose.