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I'm just appalled that these people continue to provide free labour to Reddit and that Reddit encourages this arrangement. The "dang" model where the moderator

I'm just appalled that these people continue to provide free labour to Reddit and that Reddit encourages this arrangement. The "dang" model where the moderators get paid a salary for their work seems the only reasonable and fair way to go. Having mods work for free is effectively a form of psychological abuse, taking advantage of people's social media addiction for corporate benefit.

treme 3y ago
economics just don't work for professional mods atm. keep in mind YC is worth 100B+
- kellops 3y ago
  Reddit already has professional mods who deal with reported content, across all subreddits, in the following prohibited categories: > Harassment > Threatening violence > Hate > Sexualization of minors > Sharing personal information > Non-consensual intimate media > Prohibited transaction > Impersonation > Copyright violation > Trademark violation > Self-harm or suicide > Spam Those moderators aren't doing their work for free, so why should anyone else?
  - phaistra 3y ago
    > Those moderators aren't doing their work for free, so why should anyone else? Because they actively volunteer to do so.
  - funciton 3y ago
    Reddit admins only have site-wide rules to worry about. They don't need to care about whether a particular post is appropriate for a particular subreddit. If they did that would make their job a lot more complicated.
Cthulhu_ 3y ago
The problem that every social media has is that manual moderation does not scale; even with tooling, the major platforms like Facebook employ thousands of content moderators as contractors, a lot in low-wage countries. Having an army of willing volunteers helps, but it's not good enough because these are unpaid, untrained people without the psychological helplines that professional moderators have. I hope Reddit has good tooling to prevent the volunteers from seeing the worst of it. That said, I do think that everyone contributing their time to social media like this should get a cut from the revenue; I'm 100% confident Reddit has exact numbers for the value per subreddit and even per post, so they can apply math and give the moderators a percentage of that, and even the posters of good posts. I mean yeah then you get the problem of reposts and simple copiers, but that's already an issue, it's just that the issue is karma instead of money.

treme 3y ago

economics just don't work for professional mods atm. keep in mind YC is worth 100B+

kellops 3y ago
Reddit already has professional mods who deal with reported content, across all subreddits, in the following prohibited categories: > Harassment > Threatening violence > Hate > Sexualization of minors > Sharing personal information > Non-consensual intimate media > Prohibited transaction > Impersonation > Copyright violation > Trademark violation > Self-harm or suicide > Spam Those moderators aren't doing their work for free, so why should anyone else?
- phaistra 3y ago
  > Those moderators aren't doing their work for free, so why should anyone else? Because they actively volunteer to do so.
- funciton 3y ago
  Reddit admins only have site-wide rules to worry about. They don't need to care about whether a particular post is appropriate for a particular subreddit. If they did that would make their job a lot more complicated.

Cthulhu_ 3y ago

The problem that every social media has is that manual moderation does not scale; even with tooling, the major platforms like Facebook employ thousands of content moderators as contractors, a lot in low-wage countries. Having an army of willing volunteers helps, but it's not good enough because these are unpaid, untrained people without the psychological helplines that professional moderators have. I hope Reddit has good tooling to prevent the volunteers from seeing the worst of it. That said, I do think that everyone contributing their time to social media like this should get a cut from the revenue; I'm 100% confident Reddit has exact numbers for the value per subreddit and even per post, so they can apply math and give the moderators a percentage of that, and even the posters of good posts. I mean yeah then you get the problem of reposts and simple copiers, but that's already an issue, it's just that the issue is karma instead of money.