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Moderators of a subreddit are not employees of Reddit. Moderators of a subreddit can ban a user on THAT subreddit, for any reason they want. They cannot ban you

Moderators of a subreddit are not employees of Reddit. Moderators of a subreddit can ban a user on THAT subreddit, for any reason they want. They cannot ban your user from the entire site. That, would be a Reddit employee only.

walmartwagie 4y ago
Not to mention the jannies do it for free
- litiholofan 4y ago
  uncompensated? unrecompensed? unremunerated? unsalaried? pro bono? gratuitous? costless? rent-free? complimentary?
muh_gradle 4y ago
This is an irrelevant distinction to be made for reddit in 2023. Reddit is profiting off of work from unpaid moderators, who do have a significant say in reddit user experience. And there are a small number of power users that moderate many of the largest subreddits and then some.
- PenguinCoder 4y ago
  The GP said: > Wouldn't expect anything less from a company who would ban you for making a sarcastic comment. My point is not irrelevant to the distinction, it IS the distinction. Moderators on Reddit are _not company employees_.
- heywhatupboys 4y ago
  Remember: one of the "highest ranking" reddit mods with a direct line to the admins is a literal convicted child abuser who beat her wife and kid, all public records, she (now preferred pronouns, MtF, was father), is protected by reddit. Another mod is literally married to a convicted p-dofile who r-ped someone, again, these people post with their real names, all public records. some mods even get a paycheck from reddit! (this was leaked from a zoom convo they had)
  - thesid 4y ago
    This surely is speculation. After the aimee incident I'm sure reddit would have booted all risky candidates off the payroll
    - heywhatupboys 4y ago
      the moderator leak came about 30 days ago. I am not sure if I can link the content here without breaking some obscure HN rule, even though they are behind pseudonymic usernames. rdrama.net , who fight against these types of degenerate Reddit mods, have had the leaks in their threads. Even if they are not officially on the payroll, the moderator who has been convicted of beating her (she was the father) kid and wife, still has an "official" line directly to the Reddit admins, and she has admitted to working 60 hours a week for Reddit... While they might not officially condone their behavior, they use their free labor
- simplotek 4y ago
  > This is an irrelevant distinction to be made for reddit in 2023. Not really. Trying to conflate the role of a subreddit moderator with a company employee does not make any sense. I've became a subreddit moderator automatically when I created subreddits, and I assigned the role of subreddit moderator to other users because I could. I'd be surprised if anyone argued that reddit owed me something.
shitalian 4y ago
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walmartwagie 4y ago

Not to mention the jannies do it for free

litiholofan 4y ago
uncompensated? unrecompensed? unremunerated? unsalaried? pro bono? gratuitous? costless? rent-free? complimentary?

muh_gradle 4y ago

This is an irrelevant distinction to be made for reddit in 2023. Reddit is profiting off of work from unpaid moderators, who do have a significant say in reddit user experience. And there are a small number of power users that moderate many of the largest subreddits and then some.

PenguinCoder 4y ago
The GP said: > Wouldn't expect anything less from a company who would ban you for making a sarcastic comment. My point is not irrelevant to the distinction, it IS the distinction. Moderators on Reddit are _not company employees_.
heywhatupboys 4y ago
Remember: one of the "highest ranking" reddit mods with a direct line to the admins is a literal convicted child abuser who beat her wife and kid, all public records, she (now preferred pronouns, MtF, was father), is protected by reddit. Another mod is literally married to a convicted p-dofile who r-ped someone, again, these people post with their real names, all public records. some mods even get a paycheck from reddit! (this was leaked from a zoom convo they had)
- thesid 4y ago
  This surely is speculation. After the aimee incident I'm sure reddit would have booted all risky candidates off the payroll
  - heywhatupboys 4y ago
    the moderator leak came about 30 days ago. I am not sure if I can link the content here without breaking some obscure HN rule, even though they are behind pseudonymic usernames. rdrama.net , who fight against these types of degenerate Reddit mods, have had the leaks in their threads. Even if they are not officially on the payroll, the moderator who has been convicted of beating her (she was the father) kid and wife, still has an "official" line directly to the Reddit admins, and she has admitted to working 60 hours a week for Reddit... While they might not officially condone their behavior, they use their free labor
simplotek 4y ago
> This is an irrelevant distinction to be made for reddit in 2023. Not really. Trying to conflate the role of a subreddit moderator with a company employee does not make any sense. I've became a subreddit moderator automatically when I created subreddits, and I assigned the role of subreddit moderator to other users because I could. I'd be surprised if anyone argued that reddit owed me something.

shitalian 4y ago

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