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There are subreddits where mods meet in person a few times per year. Replace that commitment.
by agilob 3y ago
There are subreddits where mods meet in person a few times per year. Replace that commitment.
- gpm 3y agoEasy if you pay the new ones really.
- csomar 3y agoTheir whole business model is that you have free labor to moderate the subs. They can't afford to pay for all subs and will become centralized in a few subs only.
- reilly3000 3y agoAs the front page of the Internet, I would hope someone there has enough imagination to find a way to pay the people that do the work. If not, do we really have an Internet?
- ghaff 3y agoFront page of the internet? Please. It's not that important.
- dylan604 3y agoYeah, that's right up there with "Free, and always will be", except there's different costs not covered by that free.
- kedean 3y agoThey were referencing reddit's slogan, although I don't know if they still use it anywhere.
- DANmode 3y agoIt's in some of the older CSS still, last I checked.
- capableweb 3y agoIt's the <title> on old.reddit.com still.
- madmads 3y agoDo you think it's possible to pay a new group of people and have them care as much as the people who met voluntarily out of sheer interest and dedication to their community? I doubt it. Edit: not that I'm against paying mods, I support that. But replacing enthusiast mods with paid mods, I doubt that'll be adequate.
- gcanyon 3y agoThe obvious example here is /r/AskHistorians. Notoriously among the strictest subreddits, and an absolute treasure to read as a result. There is zero chance it could be maintained by paid staff without a serious search for qualified people. There's a bit in Predictably Irrational by Daniel Ariely where he talks about social compensation vs. market compensation (I could be remembering the terms wrong). He asks how poorly it would go if you went to Thanksgiving dinner with your grandmother, and after eating the amazing spread you handed her a $20 and said, "That's for the great food, gran, it was amazing!"
- pjc50 3y agoIs replacing free labour with paid labour really the best direction for the IPO balance sheet?
- capableweb 3y agoIf I consider it from the perspective of reddit inc, probably. Get some cheap labor where I can pay as little per hour as possible, and get rid of people who can strike without losing anything. The people I'll hire for cheap won't strike because I do unlikable changes like pushing out 3rd party apps or try to get rid of NSFW content. And if they do, I'll just fire them and replace with someone else. Gets rid of a nuisance relatively easy, but degrades the quality. But reddit doesn't seem to care much about quality for the last years so.
- none_to_remain 3y agoMaybe Reddit has decided the free labor costs too much, even if the price is cheap.
- jxf 3y agoAny examples that come to mind? That sounds like a positive signal.
- pixl97 3y ago>Replace that commitment. They don't need to. They do need to keep the stock price up just long enough to cash out and leave a sucker holding the bag.
- brucethemoose2 3y agoI think they missed that window.