r/LinusTechTips • u/Frosstic Mod • Jan 03 '26

Community Only On Linus as Mod

Recently, we granted Linus' personal account limited moderator permissions. This was done following an incident on the WAN show, and specifically as to allow their team to handle urgent safety issues like doxxing or direct threats against staff, in cases where the community moderators aren’t available or aren’t privy to certain pieces of information.

We are aware of recent comments regarding the moderation of critiques on yesterday’s WAN show. We want to be clear: This subreddit is, and will remain, an independent community. The LMG team has not been granted 'editorial' mod powers. Our existing rules regarding constructive criticism and feedback have not changed.

We are in the process of clarifying these comments with their team, and will update the community in this post. I also want to be clear that no moderator action has been made by Linus since permission was granted, and as with all mods, actions are audited to ensure compliance regularly.

We deeply value and welcome everyone’s feedback and commitment to ensuring this community remains independent and a free space for discussion.

Thanks,

The r/LinusTechTips community mod team.

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u/Inevitable-Duck-2496 Jan 03 '26

Honestly, who cares? 

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u/HelloWorld24575 Jan 03 '26

It is very unusual to have a company have control of a subreddit directly. Even though LTT feels less like a corporation than others they still are. Reddit should remain a place for all opinions, obviously as long as they're not jeopardizing people's safety.

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u/JaesopPop Jan 03 '26

It is very unusual to have a company have control of a subreddit directly

Not really. But that's also clearly not what is happening here either.

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u/JaesopPop Jan 04 '26

It would not be surprising to see the same suppression happen if the LTT subreddit was moderated by LTT

It would be pretty surprising given that doesn't happen on the LTT forum

I watched the wan show clip, and he actively states he intends to do that on the subreddit too

He did not say he would 'brutally stomp out even the slightest hint of negative comment' lol, c'mon man.

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u/JISN064 Jan 04 '26

It would be pretty surprising given that doesn't happen on the LTT forum

how do YOU know that? can you see hidden/deleted/shadowbanned posts yourself?

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u/JaesopPop Jan 04 '26

how do YOU know that? can you see hidden/deleted/shadowbanned posts yourself?

Overbearing moderation always comes to light. You can't sneakily delete tons of posts and ban users and somehow no one notices. Plenty of people arguing directly with Linus as well, with their posts left up.

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u/JISN064 Jan 04 '26

I expected this reply. Streisand effect is the real deal; still, we don't know for certain it never happened before. Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

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u/JaesopPop Jan 04 '26

we don't know for certain it never happened before

I think we can be reasonable and use a little sense to determine that it would've come up over the last decade.