Joel Johnson on what went wrong at Reddit, where moderators closed ranks around a particularly nasty member in the face of outside scrutiny: "outcast cultures … must survive an awkward adolescence before integrating fully back into the culture from which they are spawned. And like most teenagers, there is a lot of whining, misfired blame, and crying about "never asking to be born" before those cultures realize that despite their memory of an idyllic second childhood, everyone must eventually grow up."
The adolescence of Reddit
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