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Any white collar professional in engineering (full spectrum) has billing rates over $100 at entry level.
A defense contractor recently posted an $80 per hour contract near me for non-entry level EE design work.
My company charges $110/hr for an entry level engineer to work on your project.
EDIT: This is just offering a data point.
EDIT EDIT: If we assume a multiple of 2.5 (pretty standard), that $80 becomes $200/hr billed rate.
A 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.
I do not see what your conclusion has to do with your premise. Subreddits have topics and rules. Moderators curate posts to suit those topics and rules. This has value.
My local stage and municipality have subreddits. The state subreddit was taken over by political hacks years ago. The municipality subreddit is getting worse and worse.
There’s no obligation at all to administer a regional subreddit in an inclusive way.
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If they are doing it for free, the value of the labor is zero by definition.
That’s like saying that if you donate to a charity, the value of the goods you gave must be zero because it was a donation
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Moderating content is not equivalent to posting.
You're right. It's far more powerful than posting. Maybe they should be paying to be moderators, since they get extra influence over the conversations.
Yeah, and home cooks do billions of dollars worth of free cooking per year for their friends and family. The fact that something can be valued in dollars doesn't actually mean that it's wrong that it's being done for no monetary compensation. You can put a dollar value on anything, including every constructive hobby, sport, and pastime that people do.
That isn't "worth" - that's a "cost" estimate.