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What is going to happen when Reddit ipo’s and the employees benefit financially from it, but the moderators who actually make reddit what it is get nothing?
Steemit[1] is the reddit alternative built on Steem[2].
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(deimorz is former Reddit staff and now operates a Reddit competitor)
I also probably did thousands of hours of unpaid moderation and development work on Reddit before I worked there. None of that's very relevant here though, other than showing that I'm intimately familiar with the dynamic from spending a lot of time on both sides of it.
Thats a pretty good argument for it to be relevant.
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What about the users who post content? Are they expected to get something too? Youtube and Twitch pay people who make content, in addition to paying moderators.
Twitch moderators get paid? That is news to me. Where do I sign up!
[0] https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/8040/cohhcarnage-on-how...
In 2014, the CEO Yishan Wong and lead investor Sam Altman said they were promising equity to some users of Reddit https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/30/6874353/reddit-50-million... Any update on this?
Smart enough to foresee it, not smart enough to avoid it.
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Do moderators expect to get paid?
They get paid in the satisfaction of exerting control over others, enforcing their bias in a community, and generally feeling powerful. That's the kind of person who tends to self-select to delete posts and ban people all day for free. Moderation gets so bad on reddit (visible from subreddits like watchredditdie and nolockedthreads) that many communities would be better off self-policed solely by up/down votes, all t…
What is going to happen when Reddit ipo’s and the employees benefit financially from it, but the moderators who actually make reddit what it is get nothing?
Not everybody’s metric is $
What is going to happen when Reddit ipo’s and the employees benefit financially from it, but the moderators who actually make reddit what it is get nothing?
The internet has had paid and free communities and forums forever. I can’t think of a single one where voluntary non-employee moderators got paid. Tech support forums for ten billion dollar companies also sometimes have non-employee moderators who I’m pretty sure are not paid.
It's a violation of the FLSA to use volunteers to do unpaid work at a for-profit company, even if the volunteers are OK with not getting paid. It's only going to take one mod to file a DoL complaint before Reddit scraps all the mods or centralizes the mod duties under actual employees.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_Community_Leader_Program