Truth to be told, some mods don't do a stellar job.
Unpaid social media moderators perform labor worth at least $3.4M/year on Reddit
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Re: Unpaid social media moderators perform labor worth at least $3.4M/year on Reddit
#12AOL’s settlement with volunteers drew out super clear conditions for community moderators to exist without ever getting paid and it’s the playbook all social media sites with community moderation follow.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_Community_Leader_Program
Re: Unpaid social media moderators perform labor worth at least $3.4M/year on Reddit
#13The number cannot possibly be this low
Are we talking about hours spent vs. minimum wage or the quality of the output?
If the latter i expect it to be magnitudes too high.
Re: Unpaid social media moderators perform labor worth at least $3.4M/year on Reddit
#14$3.4M/year sounds like a very small amount for Reddit. It's probably worth to pay out the money just to get rid of the bad news like this one.
Re: Unpaid social media moderators perform labor worth at least $3.4M/year on Reddit
#15I see this very quickly made it's way to the front page, are the HN mods trying to tell us something? /s
With flag, vouch and downvoting … HN gets a hand from us.
Re: Unpaid social media moderators perform labor worth at least $3.4M/year on Reddit
#16I wonder if a DAO would be possible, that distributes the ad revenue of a Reddit like system to the moderators of the forums.
Writing the code seems to be not too hard.
Advertisers could send funds to a smart contract which in return gives them a token which enables them to display ads for a certain amount of time.
Each piece of ad revenue could be distributed to the moderators of the forum that generated it.
Would there be any major hurdles for such a DAO to get traction?
Re: Unpaid social media moderators perform labor worth at least $3.4M/year on Reddit
#17You can think of it as free work, of you can think of it as people building something they care about. When I post on here I don't think of it as free work but more as contributing to a community I want to be part of.
Re: Unpaid social media moderators perform labor worth at least $3.4M/year on Reddit
#18A lot of them are not impartial moderators. They are more concerned with maintaining their echo chambers. So I highly doubt the labour is worth that much.
Plenty of folks are making a lot of money out there maintaining an echo chamber (facebook, many politically-aligned news websites on all sides) on the internet, so while I agree that it's maybe not great for society, it does seem to work pretty well for capitalists.
Re: Unpaid social media moderators perform labor worth at least $3.4M/year on Reddit
#19I see this very quickly made it's way to the front page, are the HN mods trying to tell us something? /s
Paranoids attack
Re: Unpaid social media moderators perform labor worth at least $3.4M/year on Reddit
#20I wonder if a DAO would be possible, that distributes the ad revenue of a Reddit like system to the moderators of the forums. Writing the code seems to be not too hard. Advertisers could send funds to a smart contract which in return gives them a token which enables them to display ads for a certain amount of time. Each piece of ad revenue could be distributed to the moderators of the forum that generated it. Would t…
You don't need anything close to something that complicated.