Don’t be shocked if reddit itself secretly replaces a mod with a staff member or more likely intern for the large subreddits. They want their advertising money.
Honestly doubt it. They are trying to make money. Staff members would add to the cost when they have always been run by volunteers.
to protect the ad revue it will most likely be worth their allocating paid headcount or staffing up with contractors, at least in the short term, which is why this is precisely what’s going to happen
Interns are cheap, some don’t even get paid.
They will probably add additional mods, but I bet the top mod will be an employee. Thus they can insure no future protests.
Underpaid workers , free mods ( slaves ) which are even happy to do it . Super mods. reddit admins.
Most likely if enough free mods leave and not enough rejoin some outsourcing center likely from a cheat country.
They’re not slaves. They’re rubes, but not slaves.
Probably a building of overseas people making 50 cents an hour.
Yes, they apparently are going to remove me from the private subreddit I had set up a few years back for bot testing.
They’re a joke.
There’s a subreddit r/redditrequest where users can request to be a mod of an unmoderated community. Although reddit might hand pick some consistent posters for the larger subs.
This is what’s happening. I forget what subreddit it was, but a former reddit mod posted that he and his mod team were all removed as mods, banned for a week, and the subreddit they modded was posted to r/redditrequest after they turned their sub into a NSFW subreddit.
People willing to cross the picket line.
I suspect they think a Modbot can replace human mods. I doubt it so the job probably gets outsourced to underpaid workers. I dont think any new volunteers will hang around long if faced with an angry community.
The mods did say that they rely on the API so they can run their mod bots.
People who DGAF about community but care a lot about promoting their agenda and don’t mind putting up with extra extra bullshit to make sure their side gets a little extra weight on the scale. The harder it is to contribute the more you get people who have a particular reason to make the effort. Some people thought it was bad before but we’ve seen nothing yet.
