It’s obvious that Reddit as a company has no respect for its users and less than that for the mods. It’s a thankless, difficult job that isn’t even a paid position. I think a lot of us have probably quit real jobs for less bs than Reddit has pulled.
So why stay? Why bother with protests and such when the company has made it clear they don’t value your work or your opinions? Why not just pull out en masse and let the place burn to the ground?
Realistically, a good portion of them could be influence peddlers, paid by states , advertising agencies or others to shape online discussion.
That makes more sense to me than both idealistic community builders or no-life narcissists, which are the two most common ways I’ve seen mods characterized.
most of the time by squashing alternative points of view
Precisely, they are sharing it by preventing opposition to their ideas and goals
considering how many of the subs are… controlled by a relative handful of mods… lets call them ‘super mods’… chances are very solid they spend a great deal of their time modding. Which means… they probably earn money from it.
or… they walk dogs.
(edit to be clear, I’m only talking about the ones where you see ‘moderator of’ listing dozens of communities.)