I'm looking for some help in understanding what appears

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I'm looking for some help in understanding what appears to be some deeply flawed design decisions of reddit, and how those flaws either are not flawed, or how reddit might prevent users from taking advantage of them.

On reddit, the moderation staff appears to be vary subreddit to subreddit, with all mods across the entire site being community volunteers with their power limited to the subreddits they mod and nothing else. The actual paid staff that interacts with the user end of reddit seems to be limited to a few administrators, who are able to view IPs and ban people site wide.

The report system seems to have no flood detection, and is sent to mods anonymously. The only requirement to create a reddit account is an email address, and one email address may be used to create an unlimited number of reddit accounts. Any user may gain control of any subreddit, so long as all the mods of that subreddit have been inactive for ~30 days.

Until a few weeks ago, stickied posts could appear on the front page, and therefore a moderator of a sufficiently popular subreddit could easily get whatever they wanted on the front page by stickying an appropriate post, ensuring that the first thing everyone on that subreddit saw and therefore voted and commented on, was whatever they wanted on the front page.

So, can anyone help me understand how no one has taken advantage of what seem to be obscene lapses in design to mass report/post things, gain control of as many subreddits as possible, clog the front page, and otherwise be an utter nuisance to the site as a whole?