Reminds me of one time I got a really popular post on mildlyinteresting with thousands of upvotes and nearly every comment was positive and engaging towards my picture. Was becoming a really fun conversation with everyone and people had their own stories to share and questions to ask me and I even learned some new things.

Then ONE random guy comes along and quotes one of the rules saying “this is just a picture of X. Not interesting. Breaks Rule Z.” I go through his post history and he has nothing but this on multiple posts all over Reddit. He’s not even a mod anywhere! Just a random dude going around calling out posts for random rules. A few minutes later, my post gets taken down citing that rule he quoted. I decide he’s a fucking weirdo and I’d like to post his history on another sub, can’t remember which sub, and I censor his username but show the weird ass comments he makes and note that he isn’t a mod, just a guy who goes around snitching on people. That post starts getting traction and people are upvoting it and calling the unknown user a weirdo, etc. He followed me through my post history to that post and commented on it and reported it and those mods took it down because it was supposedly harassing him despite me making no mentions of who this user was. The guy outed himself!

Tyrannical mods are one thing, but they even got regular users being tyrants too! Lol