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"Huffman said in an interview that he plans to institute rules changes that would allow Reddit users to vote out moderators who have overseen the protest, comparing them to a “landed gentry.”"
I had to google Landed Gentry, it still don't make sense; "The landed gentry, or the gentry, is a largely historical British social class of landowners who could live entirely from rental income, or at least had a country estate." That's a weird way to describe an unpaid moderator. Either way, there's no reddit to return to if they're going scorched earth on the moderators anyways. This is home now.
It only makes sense if Huffman considers himself King; the moderators are a threat to his land!
The moderators are unpaid workers farming the content. They're serfs.
And the commenters and posters are the crops being farmed? (Some would be weeds, I guess.)