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AFAIK, most of the moderation on Reddit is done by unpaid humans, not AI. Reddit isn't perfect, of course, but their approach does scale.
by troymc 4y ago
AFAIK, most of the moderation on Reddit is done by unpaid humans, not AI. Reddit isn't perfect, of course, but their approach does scale.
- kkklloufffr 4y agoModerators on Reddit are extremely petty and vindictive and I have hypothesized for a long time that this is because they are not paid with money.
- vintermann 4y agoYes 1. If they didn't get something out of it, they wouldn't be doing it. 2. They don't get money out of it. 3. So...
- galleywest200 4y agoAs someone who helps moderate a very large subreddit I can assure you we write our own bots to help. A lot of stuff is manually reviewed "in queue" and we review any complains in modmail manually. But there are too many comment for us unpaid internet janitors to not use our own robots. Also since we are not paid our caring levels are lower, thus heavy use of regex and automation.
- Kiro 4y agoMost moderation on Reddit is done by automated bots. Without those it wouldn't scale so humans are not enough.