Unpaid social media moderators perform labor worth at least $3.4M/year on Reddit
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Unpaid social media moderators perform labor worth at least $3.4M/year on Reddit
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#2I see this very quickly made it's way to the front page, are the HN mods trying to tell us something? /s
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#3And probably more when you consider the legal shield they provide.
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#5Yet if they were paid they’d probably be found wanting from a professional viewpoint.
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#6No post body was provided.
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#7This is nothing new, although the scale of it definitely is.
The idea behind the superfan doing all your work has been studied and worked with for some time.
People on the internet will do an amazing amount of work for recognition or just meaningless internet points.
A great write-up on the matter: https://www.amazon.ca/Science-Social-Beyond-Likes-Followers-...
You used to be able to get this free from the Lithium website, but that might be gone now.
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#8I was thinking the other day about all the posting people do on Twitter for free. It's insane how much work people will put in for such little reward or effort except for internet clout.
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#9A 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.
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#10The number cannot possibly be this low