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But most places can't afford professional moderation When you see Reddit employees driving around in their own Teslas, the "can't afford" point seems quite moo
by seiji 11y ago
But most places can't afford professional moderation
When you see Reddit employees driving around in their own Teslas, the "can't afford" point seems quite moot. (not that I'm bitter—I'm happy for you—but I'm less happy for me as a result. Brains are awful.)
The weird Reddit dynamic is volunteers have full control and the volunteers aren't courted by the site very much. All moderators of subreddits with more than X thousand subscribers should have monthly conference calls with the core Reddit moderation team to keep everybody on the same page, to address issues before they arise, and to give the moderators more of a feeling of being part of the whole. Also, pay them various amounts from token thanks payments to some multiplier of minimum wage (based on size of community? size of active community? size of active community over the past 30 days? can't make it too gamifyable).
- danielweber 11y agoIf the going wage for reddit employees means they can afford Teslas, then that's the going rate. Reddit needs a moderation team of hundreds or thousands. There's no way that's affordable.
- seiji 11y agoIt's a management problem. We have books and courses that teach management. We don't have to re-create the history of humanity every time we have a new problem just because "computers." As far as thousands of moderators, you just make rings: ring 0 = Reddit Corporate employees; ring 1 = moderators of high-value subreddits (paid, maybe not full time, but compensated); ring 2 = moderators can elect sub-moderators for helping (maybe paid, maybe an on-boarding process for ring 1); ring 3 = community moderators (no pay, but trusted with simple decisions); ring 4 = on boarding for ring 3; ring 5 = unprivileged users.