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Reddit can pay mods, just like every other social network does. Not rocket science, and if they did it just for the top ones, wouldn't cost that much.
Reddit can largely automate moderation. It's not hard, but... there are a lot of not hard things that Reddit screws up. If this was even 1 year ago, things would be different. But it's not. (I moderate a major subreddit)
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I mean, there's plenty of people lining up to have the "authority" of an internet mod, but not so many that can be trusted not to set up their own petty dictatorship or get bored when they realise what mods actually mostly do.
Can confirm as a subreddit mod. The day to day is mostly deciding whether borderline comments should be removed and whether a post contains too much self-promotion.
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Reddit can largely automate moderation. It's not hard, but... there are a lot of not hard things that Reddit screws up. If this was even 1 year ago, things would be different. But it's not. (I moderate a major subreddit)
Why work for free?
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Can confirm as a subreddit mod. The day to day is mostly deciding whether borderline comments should be removed and whether a post contains too much self-promotion.
Why do you do it?
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Can confirm as a subreddit mod. The day to day is mostly deciding whether borderline comments should be removed and whether a post contains too much self-promotion.
Why do you do it?
I like Internet communities and am willing to volunteer some time to help some be more successful.
I decided to use this as a good excuse to delete Reddit. I find myself going to it too often, and scrolling for too long, and afterwards I feel worse about the direction of humanity and down about the world. I’m not getting anything positive from it so for my own mental heath I’m deleting the app.
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It's not that hard to get one.
It is probably easy if you know people there. Unfortunately I don’t and neither my German friends (already asked on German IRC etc). It’s hard to find a way into that community if don’t already know English speaking people who are in this niche. In case anyone has an invite to give, I’d be happy to use it: hn@ .dev :)