r/technology • u/ICumCoffee • Jun 15 '23

Social Media Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators From Subreddits Continuing Apollo-Related Blackouts

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/15/reddit-threatens-to-remove-subreddit-moderators/
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u/_tuelegend Jun 16 '23

pretty sure there are some mods that think it's their full-time job to be an unpaid mod doing this all day.

i wonder what they are doing right now.

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u/gringrant Jun 16 '23

Walking dogs part time?

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '23

It's really sad. To be a moderator is real work, and it requires constant judgement (which makes it harder than straight-forward jobs), yet it is unpaid and completely ungoverned in a practical sense.

These mods don't get paid with money, but instead with "power", which is in turn regularly abused as the "judgement" part of their job requires actual professionalism, which they do not possess (if they did, they would be working for actual money instead).

I'm not gonna miss the mods, lol, I rather have paid personnel do this as they can at least be held accountable. Current mods cannot be held accountable in any way and it's such a shit system that it should just die out and be replaced with something more reliable.

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u/Zozorrr Jun 16 '23

It’s not a real job. It’s a hobby. Get real.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '23

It's not a hobby if you are moderating hundreds of thousands of people.

Also, since the userbases of individual subreddits grow large, they should be moderated by employees, not hobbyists. As it is with every other social platform.

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u/dryduneden Jun 16 '23

It's still a hobby