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Exhibit 1060

RedditMods: moderators of the 25,814 largest subreddits (public dataset, collected 6 February 2024), and overlap computation

Exhibit 1060 ยท Dataset query

RedditMods: moderators of the 25,814 largest subreddits (public dataset, collected 6 February 2024), and overlap computation

Method: read moderators.csv (125,812 subreddit-moderator pairs, usernames SHA256-hashed, bots removed by the dataset author's heuristic; file SHA-256 d41dff3ee13757204380f3ee2c2bf67ee81f08d216433bc32470acc7c399a31f) and counted pairs per hashed moderator. Result: 93,115 moderator accounts on 25,814 subreddits; median 1 subreddit per moderator; 13,680 (14.7%) moderate two or more; 1,732 (1.9%) five or more; 435 (0.47%) ten or more; 37 fifty or more; 10 a hundred or more (maximum 241). The top 1% of accounts (931) hold 10.9% of all pairs; the 435 accounts with ten or more subreddits sit on 4,504 subreddits (17.4%). 3,990 subreddits list one moderator; median team size is 4. Gini coefficient of subreddits per moderator is 0.24. No account is identified.

Source
Dataset by A. Mayor (GitHub almayor/reddit-mods-dataset); computation by the Lacuna Project
Date
collected 6 February 2024; computed 10 November 2026
Grade
Reported
Document
https://github.com/almayor/reddit-mods-dataset
Accessed
2026-11-10
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Note
Third-party scrape of public moderator lists, so graded reported. Hidden or suspended moderators and the Feb 2024 snapshot date limit it. Replace with Reddit's own moderator lists captured directly, or a peer study with a named method.

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